Toleration, Respect and Recognition in Education brings
together a collection of papers examining the complexity of
different interpretations of toleration, respect and recognition in
education.
* Discusses different theories of toleration and shows how it
lies at the centre of a liberal pluralistic society
* Brings together the work of leading scholars from a range of
disciplines
* Examines how education can accommodate diversity and promote
shared public values
Innehållsförteckning
Notes on Contributors
1. Toleration, Respect and Recognition: Some tensions (Mitja
Sardoc, Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana)
2. Toleration, Children and Education (Colin Macleod, University
of Victoria)
3. Recognition and Toleration: Conflicting approaches to
diversity in education? (Sune Lægaard, University of
Roskilde)
4. Toleration and Recognition: What should we teach? (Peter
Nigel Jones, University of Newcastle)
5. Cultural Diversity and Civic Education: Two versions of the
fragmentation objection (Andrew Shorten, University of
Limerick)
6. Heteronomous Citizenship: Civic virtue and the chains of
autonomy (Lucas Swaine, Dartmouth College)
7. Civic Respect, Civic Education, and the Family (Blain
Neufeld, University of Wisconsin and Gordon Davis, Carleton
University)
8. Mutual Respect and Civic Education (Colin Bird, University of
Virginia)
9. Avoiding an Intolerant Society: Why respect of difference may
not be the best approach (Peter A. Balint, University of New South
Wales)
Index
Om författaren
Mitja Sardoc is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently engaged in research projects on citizenship education and multiculturalism. His research focuses on political theory and philosophy of education. He has edited a number of journal special issues on citizenship education and has interviewed some of the most renowned contemporary political philosophers on the topic of education and political theory, including Michael Walzer, Iris Marion Young and Martha C. Nussbaum. He is Executive Editor of Theory and Research in Education.