Leer je kinderen minder te tolereren!

Translated title of the contribution: Teach your children to tolerate less!

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Abstract

Toleration is a person’s response, on the one hand, to something she disapproves of, and on the other hand, to her inclination to put a stop to that
which she disapproves of. When people think about toleration from a
pedagogical perspective, as a virtue to be cultivated, attention naturally
focuses on the latter: how do we teach someone to control herself, to take the
other’s perspective, et cetera; and how do we make sure someone develops
‘tolerant’ views? Discussions about this virtually always concern the same
topics, however; critical reflection on the objects of (in)tolerance are lacking.
When we turn our gaze outwards, we see that intolerable practices take
place on a large scale (e.g. ecologically destructive practices) that we all
‘tolerate’ – because we don’t care enough. We ought to teach children to
care about the right things to the right degree; and that means we need to
teach them not to tolerate certain practices.
Translated title of the contributionTeach your children to tolerate less!
Original languageDutch
Pages (from-to)243-250
Number of pages8
JournalPedagogiek
Volume41
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2021

Keywords

  • toleration
  • intolerance
  • political education
  • environmental education
  • ecology
  • virtue

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