Teaching Tolerance Within the Protective Walls of the Public School: A Civic Aim of Education in Pluralist Democracies

• In Event: Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Issues of Controversy in the Social Studies

Abstract

In this paper, we make a case for a nuanced approach to dealing with the challenges presented by religious orthodoxy to the civic mission of pluralist public schools. This approach provides social studies teachers, scholars, and others a new way of conceptualizing tolerance that is more attainable for the pluralist classroom and may lead to a greater realization of the aims of citizenship education.

Authors

• Suzanne N. Rosenblith, Clemson University

• Benjamin J. Bindewald, Oklahoma State University