Towards understanding (religious) (in)tolerance in education
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2014Author
Potgieter, Ferdinand J.
Van der Walt, Johannes L.
Wolhuter, Charste C.
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In recent years, schools and education authorities world wide have been paying increasing
attention to issues surrounding diversity and religious (in)tolerance. The term ‘tolerance’ is,
however, clouded by considerable confusion and vagueness. This article seeks to contribute
to recent scholarly attempts at understanding (religious) tolerance and the term that denotes
it. After a brief semantic analysis of the term ‘tolerance’, arguments concerning the onticity
of tolerance as phenomenon or entity are discussed. By examining its onticity we explore and
explain some of the essential features of tolerance. The article ends with a brief discussion of
some of the implications of our examination that we foresee for (religion) education.
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