Intercultural education of tolerance and hospitality

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ID2936730
AuthorsMaria Dasli (0000-0002-8661-5270, The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume38
Issue5
Pages676-687
Publication date2017-09-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2015.1135308
OpenAlexW2343080601
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited44

This paper aims to make a theoretical contribution to the current debate on intercultural education by focusing on the nature and limits of tolerance. Drawing on contemporary theorisations of the concept, it is suggested that while tolerance appears fundamental for confronting issues of difference, it has several caveats. The paper discusses the caveats in relation to differences that do not always co-exist harmoniously within the same society, and argues against the view that tolerance brings about automatically positive results to those who practise it. In the light of this argument, I propose that the ethics of hospitality, as elaborated by Derrida and Dufourmantelle, may provide a more viable approach to accommodating cultural difference. I conclude the paper with the implications for intercultural education. Specifically, I show that intercultural education has clung too long to the normative goals of modernity, and suggest that in order to go beyond these goals one must bring the ethical relation of responsibility for the other to the fore

Business · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Hospitality · Modernity · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Computer Science · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Engineering · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools

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