The aim of this study is to investigate how values for rights and caring are communicated inrelation to gender, as expressed in everyday interactions between teachers and children in preschool. In orderto interpret the communication between teachers and children, Habermas’ (1995) concepts of strategicand communicative actions are used; and to understand how ideas about gender manifest themselves inthe communication, we use Davies’ (2003) idea of duality, the bipolarity, between femininity and masculinity.Results will be discussed in terms of patterns for communication according to gender and the actual values.