Measuring religious tolerance among final year education students: the birth of a questionnaire
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Broer, N.A.
De Muynck, Bram
Potgieter, Ferdinand Jacobus
Wolhuter, Charste Coetzee
Van der Walt, Johannes Lodewicus
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International Institute for Religious Freedom
Abstract
Given the fact that most societies worldwide are currently suffering from (serious)
incidents symptomatic of religious intolerance, and since education can be regarded
as one of the main instruments that society has at its disposal to combat this vice,
it was decided to construct a questionnaire with which to measure the degree of
religious tolerance prevalent among final year undergraduate students in education,
that is, young people on the threshold of entering the teaching profession. The article
begins with an outline of the problem of religious intolerance that many societies
have to cope with. It then continues to discuss the “phenomenon” of religious
tolerance, and after arriving at a working definition of tolerance describes how the
proposed questionnaire was constructed and validated. The article concludes with
an invitation to interested parties to join the authors in administering the questionnaire
in their own institutions of teacher education, wherever they are.
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Broer, N.A. et al. 2014. Measuring religious tolerance among final year education students: the birth of a questionnaire. International journal for religious freedom, 7(1/2):77–96. [http://journals.co.za/content/ijrf/7/1_2/EJC176851]