‘<i>Sometimes we have to clash</i>’: how preschool teachers in Sweden engage with dilemmas arising from cultural diversity and value differences

The research presented in this paper explores how preschool teachers Sweden negotiate tensions stemming from perceived cultural dilemmas among themselves, the children they work with, and children´s parents or guardians. aim characterising process of negotiation is to expand knowledge about adapt pedagogically increasing diversity sector Sweden. study based on focus group interviews with who schools where nearly 70% are newly arrived immigrants have guardians were born a country other than interview data subjected thematic analysis. Three themes emerged: Circumventing conflicts by keeping peaceful; Culture as barrier opportunity for dealing dilemmas; engaging means developing profession. discussed relation Gert Biesta’s concepts rational community those nothing common.