"Hej, är det du som ska vara här idag?" : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om förskolevikariers upplevelser av hur det är att komma in i en redan etablerad arbetsgrupp

Sammanfattning: The research field for this study was the working environment in preschools with the purpose of highlighting the substitute teacher’s experiences of how to enter an already established workgroup in pre-school. How do substitute teachers perceive the treatment when being met by ordinary staff? Do they feel that they are included or excluded from the workgroup? In order to answer these questions, qualitative interviews were conducted with six preschool substitute teachers. Hermeneutics is used as a methodological approach to increase the ability of creating a good understanding of the preschool substitute teacher´s experiences. The results showed that substitute teachers generally are well treated by ordinary staff, however there are exceptions. Two key factors for the substitute teachers to experience inclusion are that they have received good information and that the ordinary staff treated them well. The preschool substitute teachers had also experienced exclusion in the form of inadequate information, which in some cases happened due to stigmatization and domination techniques. The conclusion of this study is that the preschool substitute teachers have experienced varied responses as well as they generally received good treatment by the ordinary staff. Two important factors in experiencing inclusion are that they received the necessary information and got the opportunity to be included in conversations with the ordinary staff. Whereas factors for exclusion are inadequate information and that ordinary staff do not show any interest in them.