The Swedish state and educational system are secular, so to say they do not depend on the former protestant state church anymore. Many people in Sweden are also secular. Even so, in school teachers meet students with a religious faith. The purpose of this study is to examine how teachers without a religious belonging experience the encounter with religious students. The method used was semistructured interviews with five teachers in a upper secondary school in a multicultural suburb of Stockholm. In this school, most students have a religious faith and the majority are Muslims or Christians. The prevalent discourses about religion and secularism in Sweden today are found through the teachers speech about the teachers and the students living in two different worlds. The dichotomy is more clearly expressed by the less religious teachers. The meaning of the double assignment of the curriculum is interpreted differently by the different teachers and the teachers have experienced conflicts of values regarding the following subjects: freedom of speech, sexuality (including homosexuality and gender equality), antisemitism and intolerance. The teachers use discussions and debates to handle the conflicts. In their statements, the teachers place the conflicts of value in a public sphere, not in an individual, which means they do not hesitate to act against unscientific approaches and/or antidemocratic views. Thus, the conflicts of values can be used as tools to foster democracy, tolerance and human rights. The teachers believe that they have the assignment to change the students religiously anchored values, but not to influence them to become secular.

Cette recherche, traitera de la perception qu’ont les infirmières, œuvrant en milieu pédiatrique, de leur apport dans le processus de consentement aux soins et des enjeux éthique qui en découlent. L’analyse de leurs commentaires, fait voir une extension de la définition, plus classique, du concept même de consentement, pour y inclure la dimension d’un processus enclenché et poursuivi dans le dialogue et la né-gociation; un consentement sans cesse à répéter, à renégocier. Les participantes ne parlaient guère d’autonomie mais parlent surtout de ce consen-tement aux actes de soins, actes individuels, voire routiniers. Le but recherché par l’infirmière est moins une permission donnée par le patient pour que le soignant fasse son travail en toute immunité sur le plan légal, qu’une collaboration pour permettre une cogestion de la maladie. Très souvent, les infirmières discutent de l’importance qu’a pour elles le travail d’équipe, comme la façon logique de concevoir leur travail. Il devient logique aussi d’étendre aux parents et à l’enfant la participation à l’équipe thérapeutique. Ce n’est pas dire que tout se passe sans heurt. L’enfant peut s’opposer, ou le parent. Les conflits de valeurs surgissent: conflits et détresse morale suscités chez l’infirmière par la confrontation à des croyances et des valeurs culturelles et reli-gieuses différentes de celles auxquelles l’infirmière adhèrerait plus facilement. Mais souvent, l’infirmière fait montre d’une grande sensibilité culturelle et religieuse; et il lui arrive de faire appel à des collègues qui pourraient, plus qu’elle, connaître les sys-tèmes de valeurs qui posent question. Nous nous sommes servi d’un ensemble de référents interprétatifs initiaux à titre d’un cadre conceptuel intégrant des notions tirées du modèle de soins infirmiers de Corbin et Strauss, ainsi que de la perspective proposée par l’interactionnisme symbo-lique. / This research will address the perception that nurses working in a pediatric setting have of their contribution to the process of consent for care. Data analysis reveals an extension of the more conventional definition: here, the very con-cept of consent is perceived as to include the dimension of a process initiated and continued in dialogue and negotiation. Participants hardly spoke about autonomy but mostly of constantly repeated and renegotiated consent to individual or even routine acts of care. The intent of the nurse is less to obtain the patient’s permission for the caregiver to do his or her job with immunity, in legal terms; it is more to empower the child and his or her parents so as to obtain a collaboration to enable co-management of the disease. Very often, nurses discussed the importance for them of teamwork as the logical way to design their work. It is also logical to extend to parents and children an invitation to partici-pate in the therapeutic team. This is not to say that everything always goes smoothly. The child or the parent may raise opposition. Value conflicts then arise: conflicts and moral distress among nurs-es generated by the confrontation of beliefs and cultural and religious values differ-ent from those the nurse would more easily be comfortable with. But often, the nurse demonstrated a great cultural and religious sensitivity, and even would seek advice from colleagues who could know, more than she, about the value systems that raise questions. We used a set of interpretative initial referents as a conceptual framework that inte-grates concepts from the nursing model of Corbin and Strauss, as well as from the symbolic interactionism perspective.