Tolerance of intolerance: values and virtues at stake in education

Orlenius, Kennert

doi:10.1080/03057240802399285

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“…The effect of parental tolerance on adolescents' tolerance did not differ for adolescents with supportive or non-supportive parents. Given the widespread support for tolerance in mature democracies (Peffley & Rohrschneider, 2003), it is possible that even adolescents who do not experience their tolerant parents as supportive still learn the value of tolerance via other socializing settings, for example school curriculum, media, or friends (Marquart-Pyatt & Paxton, 2007;Orlenius, 2008). Alternatively, parental support might be a mediator in the process of tolerance transmission, which would be in line with research showing that supportive parents tend to have tolerant offspring (Fraley, Griffin, Belsky, & Roisman, 2012;Miklikowska & Hurme, 2011).…”

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Like parent, like child? Development of prejudice and tolerance towards immigrants

Miklikowska

2015

British J of Psychology

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Although intergroup attitudes are assumed to develop due to the influence of parents, there is no longitudinal evidence supporting this claim. In addition, research on socialization of intergroup attitudes has omitted possible effects of adolescents on their parents. We also know little about the conditions under which intergroup attitudes are transmitted. This two-wave, 2 years apart, study of adolescents (N = 507) and their parents examined the relations between parents and adolescents' prejudice and tolerance from a longitudinal perspective. The study tested whether parental prejudice and tolerance would predict over-time changes in adolescents' attitudes and whether adolescents' prejudice and tolerance would elicit changes in parental attitudes. Additionally, it explored whether some of the effects would depend on perceived parental support. Results showed significant bidirectional influences between parents and adolescents' attitudes. In addition, adolescents who perceived their parents as supportive showed higher parent-adolescent correspondence in prejudice than youth with low parental support. These findings show that intergroup attitudes develop as a result of mutual influences between parents and adolescents. Hence, the unidirectional transmission model and previous research findings should be revisited. The results also suggest that parents' prejudice influence adolescents' attitudes to the extent that youth perceive their parents as supportive.

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Like parent, like child? Development of prejudice and tolerance towards immigrants

Miklikowska

2015

British J of Psychology

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“…It incorporates an individual's perception of what is right or wrong, and the extent to which the content of these differences can be expressed (Weldon, 2006: 336). Maule and Goidel, 2003;Orlenius, 2008), the moral issue (cf. Maule and Goidel, 2003;Orlenius, 2008), the moral issue (cf.…”

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Crafting tolerance: the role of political institutions in a comparative perspective

Kirchner

Freitag

Rapp

2011

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Ongoing changes in social structures, orientation, and value systems confront us with the growing necessity to address and understand transforming patterns of tolerance as well as specific aspects, such as social tolerance. Based on hierarchical analyses of the latest World Values Survey (2005-08) and national statistics for 28 countries, we assess both individual and contextual aspects that influence an individual's perception of different social groupings. Using a social tolerance index that captures personal attitudes toward these groupings, we present an institutional theory of social tolerance. Our results show that specific institutional qualities, which reduce status anxiety, such as inclusiveness, universality, and fairness, prevail over traditional socio-economic, societal, cultural, and democratic explanations.

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“…This study supports the notion that students who engage in the programme are highly likely to have more of those skills available to them before they embark on it. Orlenius (2008) indicated that being more open to allowing ideas and opinions that people may not necessarily agree with reflects an awareness of the equal and unique value of all people. This is crucial for a shift towards a more democratic human rights rather than a charitable process of participation in prosocial activities.…”

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Global citizens: Who are they?

Bourke

Bamber

Lyons

2012

Education, Citizenship and Social

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A growing desire to instigate global citizenship programmes in higher education has led to the development of optional structured opportunities for students to engage in prosocial activities. One of the challenges facing such programmes is to demonstrate and plan for the personal growth of those students. This article reports the dispositional, prosocial and attitudinal characteristics; knowledge and skills; and perceptions of social justice that students who undertake these activities bring to their initial participation. The findings indicate, that in comparison to a control group, the students differ significantly in a number of important ways (for example, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness; Machiavellianism, prosocial behaviour; selfesteem; skills relating to social action and tolerance and understanding and their concern regarding social problems). However, consideration should be given to the ways in which those students can be developed within a framework for social justice. Further, recruitment procedures for citizenship programmes in general should encourage the participation of a more diverse group of students than currently appears to be the case.

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Tolerance of intolerance: values and virtues at stake in education

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Like parent, like child? Development of prejudice and tolerance towards immigrants

Like parent, like child? Development of prejudice and tolerance towards immigrants

Crafting tolerance: the role of political institutions in a comparative perspective

Global citizens: Who are they?

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