BKB_Social sustainability in Swedish multicultural preschools

Although principals in Swedish preschools treasure cultural diversity and multilingualism, also involves challenges to preschool staff. They may find themselves a position where there is no way of cooperating with parents, as prescribed the curriculum (Swedish National Agency for Education, 2018), without counteracting preschools’ fundamental values. These values concern promoting democracy, human rights, gender equality – social sustainability goals. In this study, 14 were interviewed focus groups. The results study are explored through ‘dilemmatic spaces’ (Honig, 1996), conceptual framework useful analysing teachers’ everyday practice. Dilemmatic spaces suggest that dilemmas ever-present particular setting, such preschools, shifts responsibility challenging situation from individual structural level. concept has been developed by Fransson Grannäs (2013). This article presents arise when staff working multicultural strive uphold stipulated curriculum.