5. Method
This article builds on a qualitative interview study in an upper secondary school in northern Sweden and is based on a secondary analysis of a previous study (see [31] Parding, 2007). The semi-structured interviews focused on working conditions, how work is governed and organized as well as the implications for the teachers' work. Each of the 15 hour-long interviews with the teachers was recorded.
The interviews focused on working conditions and more specifically teachers' discretionary power as the governance of the school changed ([31] Parding, 2007). Interestingly, a considerable part of the interviews came to revolve around how the teachers experienced their conditions for learning. Consequently, learning emerged in the analysis of the interviews although this was not the initial focus. This led to a closer examination of the conditions for learning, inspired by theories on workplace learning and "learning organization". Analyzing data in this way is based on an intertwined process between empirical data and theoretical concepts ([6] Alvesson and Sköldberg, 1994; [24] Layder, 1998). The interviews were re-examined to further explore the issue of conditions for learning in relation to learning organization and identify themes that would structure the results, which can be described as a thematic analysis ([19] Gibbs, 2007). Two themes emerged: conditions for learning in the everyday work context and conditions for learning outside the everyday work context. To clarify, we compare the changed organization of work (i.e. the introduction of "learning organization") with the organizational and management concept of "learning organization" in which the previously described pragmatic, cultural and creating approaches can be found. To analyze the teachers' conditions for learning we use a critical perspective applying theory on professions.
While the results are representative for the teachers interviewed, the ambition is not to generalize the findings to all teachers in Sweden. Instead, we seek to illuminate specific aspects of teachers' conditions for learning in relation to the idea of learning organization, in order to highlight the complexity and problems of the idea of learning organization in the context of teachers' work/professional work. Still, the findings may be applicable to, and have currency in other similar contexts.