Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World

• Main Author: Maria Magdalena Isac (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrés Sandoval-Hernández (auth), Daniel Miranda (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2018
• Series: IEA Research for Education
• Subjects: Open classroom for discussion; Comparative and international education; International Civic and Citizenship Study; International large-scale assessment; ICCS; School segregation; Tolerance; Intergenerational transmission of inequality; Measurement invariance; Attitudes towards diversity; Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance in a globalized world. The IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) is a comparative research program designed to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens, and provides a wealth of data permitting not only comparison between countries but also comparisons between schools within countries, and students within countries. Advanced analytical methods provide insights into relationships between students' attitudes towards cultural diversity and the characteristics of the students themselves, their families, their teachers and school principals. The rich diversity of educational and cultural contexts in the 38 countries who participated in ICCS 2009 are also acknowledged and addressed. Readers interested in civic education and adolescents' attitudes towards cultural diversity will find the theoretical perspectives explored engaging. For readers interested in methodology, the advanced analytical methods employed present textbook examples of how to address cross-cultural comparability of measurement instruments and multilevel data structures in international large-scale assessments (ILSA). Meanwhile, those interested in educational policy should find the identification and comparison of malleable factors across education systems that contribute to positive student attitudes towards cultural diversity a useful and thought-provoking resource.