Wyzwania dla bezpieczeństwa psychicznego nauczycieli w miejscu pracy – badania pilotażowe w gminie Strzelin
- Institution: Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9933-8911
- Institution: Akademia Wojsk Lądowych im. Generała Tadeusza Kościuszki, Polska
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1426-7422
- Year of publication: 2024
- Source: Show
- Pages: 115-130
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2024.02.06
- PDF: kie/144/kie14406.pdf
Challenges to teachers’ psychological safety in the workplace – pilot studies in the municipality of Strzelin
The study aims to show how teachers’ interactions with students, parents or legal guardians, and colleagues in the workplace affect educators’ sense of psychological safety. To this end, the survey and in-depth interviews were carried out among teachers of public educational institutions in the municipality of Strzelin (in the Lower Silesian Province). A noticeable scarcity of studies on the aggressive acts directed against educators and their consequences was the inspiration to undertake them. Publications on increasing the levels of physical, psychological, sexual, and economic aggression among students are much more common. The obtained research results show that many teachers feel “left behind” in the face of the aggression they experience, expressing the view that they cannot count on help and understanding from either the Ministry of Education and Science or their immediate superiors. Furthermore, the measurements showed that educators need to be more adequately assimilated knowledge of the legal protection to which they are entitled and are also unaware of ministerial initiatives to provide psychological support for teachers. The conducted pilot study argues in favour of the desirability of pursuing subsequent in-depth research addressing the issue of teachers’ psychological safety.