Toleration, Liberal Education, and the Accommodation of Diversity
Hansen O.H.B.
2021
The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration
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10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_3
Toleration is a central value in liberalism, and it is widely regarded as important for the accommodation of diversity. For these reasons, promoting toleration is also an integral part of liberal education. What such promotion should entail, however, is not entirely clear. A distinction is made between classical toleration, which requires that someone puts up with or endures what one disagrees with, and modern toleration, which conceives toleration more in terms of being openminded, unprejudiced, or appreciative towards diversity. As objectives for liberal education, both classical and modern toleration face challenges with respect to the accommodation of diversity: promoting classical toleration is an insufficient strategy for the purpose of accommodating diversity, because it falls short when it comes to changing pupil’s attitudes. Promoting modern toleration is a possible answer that challenge, but has also problems of its own, mainly related to the risk of exercising assimilative pressure on individuals and groups who do not fit a liberal mold. This chapter discusses whether a careful and dynamic combination of these strategies - a pedagogical toleration - could be more conducive to the liberal goal of accommodating diversity. This dual strategy may help to change pupils’ attitudes towards different kinds of diversity while also being attentive to those pupils and parents, who remain skeptical towards a liberal agenda, whether they are multiculturalism skeptics or autonomy skeptics. The crucial issue is how to balance this combination of the promotion of classical and modern toleration in order to achieve that. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
Classical toleration; Diversity; Liberal education; Liberalism; Modern toleration; Pedagogical toleration
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