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Psychological Contract in SchoolPsychological Contract • May 16th, 2024
In this article, we present how a common psychological contract was negotiated between teachers and students at three high schools in a region in Norway. Traditionally, it can be argued that the student-teacher role is characterized by one-way communication where students are passive recipients of knowledge, and the teacher is the conveyer of knowledge. Teachers face various expectations related to the quality of the students' learning environment. The teachers' intention is to establish a good dialogue and a relationship that aims to clarify goals and expectations, define each student's role in the academic learning community, and create appropriate rules in a democratic school day where students expect structure and predictability in the teaching. The findings show that the students have a high degree of relational expectations of their teachers. Furthermore, it seems that the relationship is strengthened when the students participate in the design of mutual expectations between teac
