---
_id: '66480'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Background – This study draws on data from a larger international project
    exploring parents' perceptions of the education of their children with special
    educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Using responses from 1, 309 parents
    in Australia, England, Germany, and Norway it examines parental satisfaction with
    mainstream and special schools, and parents' school placement preferences, including
    willingness to change schools. Parental satisfaction is assessed as an overall
    evaluation of how well the child's school placement meets their needs, without
    distinguishing between specific aspects of the school experience. The study also
    explores whether the child's level of support is associated with these perceptions.
    Based on a human rights perspective, we highlight parents’ perspectives and their
    role in the development of more inclusive education systems, without promoting
    one model of schooling over another. Methods – Responses from 1, 309 parents across
    four countries were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Non-parametric
    tests compared satisfaction across school types, chi-squared tests assessed associations
    with willingness to change schools, and binary logistic regression examined whether
    level of support was associated with parents' willingness to change school placement.
    Results – Parents in England, Germany, and Norway reported higher satisfaction
    with special schools than with mainstream schools. No statistically significant
    difference was observed in Australia. Parents of children in special schools were
    less likely to report considering changing schools, particularly in England and
    Norway. Higher pupil support needs were significantly associated with parents’
    willingness to change school across the combined sample. These findings suggest
    that parental satisfaction with their child's education and their preferences
    regarding school placement may be shaped by both school type and how well pupils'
    support needs are perceived to be met. Discussion and conclusion – The role of
    parents as key stakeholders in developing inclusive education systems, consistent
    with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is emphasised.
    While parents in special schools in three of the four countries reported higher
    satisfaction, the reasons for this remain unclear. Understanding the factors shaping
    parental satisfaction is essential for developing inclusive and responsive learning
    environments. These findings offer a starting point for future research on how
    education systems can better align policy commitments with families’ lived experiences.
article_number: '1710708'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Veslemøy Maria Fossum
  full_name: Johansson, Veslemøy Maria Fossum
  last_name: Johansson
- first_name: Suanne
  full_name: Gibson, Suanne
  last_name: Gibson
- first_name: Stuart
  full_name: Woodcock, Stuart
  last_name: Woodcock
- first_name: Anders
  full_name: Dechsling, Anders
  last_name: Dechsling
- first_name: Harry
  full_name: Kullmann, Harry
  id: '77972'
  last_name: Kullmann
  orcid: 0000-0001-5488-5105
- first_name: Marte Karoline
  full_name: Herrebrøden, Marte Karoline
  last_name: Herrebrøden
- first_name: Line Britt
  full_name: Ulriksen, Line Britt
  last_name: Ulriksen
- first_name: Anders
  full_name: Nordahl-Hansen, Anders
  last_name: Nordahl-Hansen
citation:
  ama: 'Johansson VMF, Gibson S, Woodcock S, et al. Parental (dis)satisfaction with
    school placement to achieve inclusion: a cross-country comparison. <i>Frontiers
    in Education</i>. 2026;11. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>'
  apa: 'Johansson, V. M. F., Gibson, S., Woodcock, S., Dechsling, A., Kullmann, H.,
    Herrebrøden, M. K., Ulriksen, L. B., &#38; Nordahl-Hansen, A. (2026). Parental
    (dis)satisfaction with school placement to achieve inclusion: a cross-country
    comparison. <i>Frontiers in Education</i>, <i>11</i>, Article 1710708. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Johansson_Gibson_Woodcock_Dechsling_Kullmann_Herrebrøden_Ulriksen_Nordahl-Hansen_2026,
    title={Parental (dis)satisfaction with school placement to achieve inclusion:
    a cross-country comparison}, volume={11}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>},
    number={1710708}, journal={Frontiers in Education}, publisher={Frontiers Media
    SA}, author={Johansson, Veslemøy Maria Fossum and Gibson, Suanne and Woodcock,
    Stuart and Dechsling, Anders and Kullmann, Harry and Herrebrøden, Marte Karoline
    and Ulriksen, Line Britt and Nordahl-Hansen, Anders}, year={2026} }'
  chicago: 'Johansson, Veslemøy Maria Fossum, Suanne Gibson, Stuart Woodcock, Anders
    Dechsling, Harry Kullmann, Marte Karoline Herrebrøden, Line Britt Ulriksen, and
    Anders Nordahl-Hansen. “Parental (Dis)Satisfaction with School Placement to Achieve
    Inclusion: A Cross-Country Comparison.” <i>Frontiers in Education</i> 11 (2026).
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>.'
  ieee: 'V. M. F. Johansson <i>et al.</i>, “Parental (dis)satisfaction with school
    placement to achieve inclusion: a cross-country comparison,” <i>Frontiers in Education</i>,
    vol. 11, Art. no. 1710708, 2026, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>.'
  mla: 'Johansson, Veslemøy Maria Fossum, et al. “Parental (Dis)Satisfaction with
    School Placement to Achieve Inclusion: A Cross-Country Comparison.” <i>Frontiers
    in Education</i>, vol. 11, 1710708, Frontiers Media SA, 2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708">10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708</a>.'
  short: V.M.F. Johansson, S. Gibson, S. Woodcock, A. Dechsling, H. Kullmann, M.K.
    Herrebrøden, L.B. Ulriksen, A. Nordahl-Hansen, Frontiers in Education 11 (2026).
date_created: 2026-07-14T08:14:19Z
date_updated: 2026-08-21T11:22:39Z
department:
- _id: '556'
doi: 10.3389/feduc.2026.1710708
intvolume: '        11'
jel:
- I24
keyword:
- human rights
- inclusion
- inclusive education
- international study
- parents
- school development
- special educational needs
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Frontiers in Education
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2504-284X
publication_status: published
publisher: Frontiers Media SA
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Parental (dis)satisfaction with school placement to achieve inclusion: a cross-country
  comparison'
type: journal_article
user_id: '105186'
volume: 11
year: '2026'
...
---
_id: '59708'
abstract:
- lang: ger
  text: Die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften gilt als zentrale Komponente für
    die Qualität des Bil­dungssystems. In inklusiven Schulen müssen Regelschullehrkräfte
    und sonderpädagogische Lehrkräfte kooperieren, um allen Schüler:innen eine bestmögliche
    Förderung zu gewährleisten. Dazu benötigen sie jedoch Zeitfenster, die von vielen
    Lehrkräften als nicht ausreichend benannt werden. Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags
    ist es, empirisch zu untersuchen, welche Bedeutung festen Zeitfenstern für die
    Lehrkräftekooperation im Klassenteam, im Jahrgangsteam und im Fachteam für die
    Arbeitszufriedenheit zukommt. Weiterhin soll überprüft werden, ob Teile der Zusammenhänge
    über die Zufriedenheit mit der Kooperationshäufigkeit und die kollektive Selbstwirksamkeitsüberzeugung
    der Lehrkräfte erklärt werden können. Dazu werden Daten aus dem BMBF-geförderten
    Projekt BiFoKi mit N=194 Lehrkräften und N=28 Schulleitungen analy­siert. Die
    Ergebnisse zeigen, dass feste Zeitfenster für die Kooperation in den unterschiedlichen
    Teams mit einer erhöhten Arbeitszufriedenheit im Zusammenhang stehen und in Teilen
    über die kollektive Selbstwirksamkeitsüberzeugung mediiert werden.
- lang: eng
  text: The job satisfaction of teachers is considered a central component for the
    quality of the educa­tion system. In inclusive schools, regular school teachers
    and special needs teachers must co­operate in order to ensure that all pupils
    receive the best possible support. To do this, however, they need time slots that
    many teachers say are not sufficient. The aim of this article is to em­pirically
    investigate the importance of fixed time slots for teacher cooperation in the
    class team, the year team and the expert team for job satisfaction. Furthermore,
    it will be examined whether parts of the correlations can be explained by satisfaction
    with the frequency of cooperation and the teachers' collective self-efficacy expectations.
    To this end, data from the BMBF-funded BiFoKi project with N=194 teachers and
    N=28 head teachers will be analyzed. The results show that fixed time slots for
    cooperation in the different teams are associated with increased job satisfaction
    and are mediated in part by collective self-efficacy expectations.
alternative_title:
- Time for job satisfaction? A quantitative-empirical study on the significance of
  fixed cooperation times for the job satisfaction of teachers in inclusive schools
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Verena
  full_name: Wohnhas, Verena
  last_name: Wohnhas
- first_name: Phillip
  full_name: Neumann, Phillip
  id: '95559'
  last_name: Neumann
- first_name: Birgit
  full_name: Lütje-Klose, Birgit
  last_name: Lütje-Klose
citation:
  ama: Wohnhas V, Neumann P, Lütje-Klose B. Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit? Eine quantitativ-empirische
    Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für die Arbeitszufriedenheit von
    Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen. <i>QfI - Qualifizierung für Inklusion Online-Zeitschrift
    zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung pädagogischer Fachkräfte</i>.
    2025;6(2). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">10.21248/qfi.167</a>
  apa: Wohnhas, V., Neumann, P., &#38; Lütje-Klose, B. (2025). Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit?
    Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für
    die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen. <i>QfI - Qualifizierung
    für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung
    pädagogischer Fachkräfte</i>, <i>6</i>(2). <a href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Wohnhas_Neumann_Lütje-Klose_2025, title={Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit?
    Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für
    die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen}, volume={6}, DOI={<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">10.21248/qfi.167</a>}, number={2}, journal={QfI
    - Qualifizierung für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort-
    und Weiterbildung pädagogischer Fachkräfte}, publisher={University Library J.
    C. Senckenberg}, author={Wohnhas, Verena and Neumann, Phillip and Lütje-Klose,
    Birgit}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Wohnhas, Verena, Phillip Neumann, and Birgit Lütje-Klose. “Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit?
    Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für
    die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen.” <i>QfI - Qualifizierung
    für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung
    pädagogischer Fachkräfte</i> 6, no. 2 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167</a>.
  ieee: 'V. Wohnhas, P. Neumann, and B. Lütje-Klose, “Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit?
    Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für
    die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen,” <i>QfI - Qualifizierung
    für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung
    pädagogischer Fachkräfte</i>, vol. 6, no. 2, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">10.21248/qfi.167</a>.'
  mla: Wohnhas, Verena, et al. “Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit? Eine quantitativ-empirische
    Studie zur Bedeutung fester Kooperationszeiten für die Arbeitszufriedenheit von
    Lehrkräften in inklusiven Schulen.” <i>QfI - Qualifizierung für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift
    zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung pädagogischer Fachkräfte</i>,
    vol. 6, no. 2, University Library J. C. Senckenberg, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.21248/qfi.167">10.21248/qfi.167</a>.
  short: V. Wohnhas, P. Neumann, B. Lütje-Klose, QfI - Qualifizierung für Inklusion.
    Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung pädagogischer
    Fachkräfte 6 (2025).
date_created: 2025-04-29T08:14:03Z
date_updated: 2025-04-29T08:31:28Z
department:
- _id: '854'
doi: 10.21248/qfi.167
intvolume: '         6'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Arbeitszufriedenheit
- Inklusion
- Sonderpädagogik
- Kooperation
- Selbstwirksamkeit
- Schulentwicklung
- job satisfaction
- Inclusion
- Special Education
- Self-efficacy
- school development
language:
- iso: ger
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://www.qfi-oz.de/index.php/inklusion/article/view/167
oa: '1'
publication: QfI - Qualifizierung für Inklusion. Online-Zeitschrift zur Forschung
  über Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung pädagogischer Fachkräfte
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2699-2477
publication_status: published
publisher: University Library J. C. Senckenberg
status: public
title: Zeit für Arbeitszufriedenheit? Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie zur Bedeutung
  fester Kooperationszeiten für die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Lehrkräften in inklusiven
  Schulen
type: journal_article
user_id: '95559'
volume: 6
year: '2025'
...
