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The idea of toleration in the educational project of the European Union

Written by Gonzalo Jover Olmeda

This paper looks into the concept of toleration that underlies the educational project of the European Union. First, it discuss the main institutional initiatives of the Union against recurrent attitudes of intolerance, as well as the activity in the field of education, specially the recent Resolution of the Council on Responses of Educational Systems to the Problems of Racism and Xenophobia. The author argues that many difficulties for a firmer action are due to the principles regulating educational policy set up by the Treaty of the European Union, namely the principle of respect to cultural diversity and the principle of subsidiarity. The trouble is that each of these principles can denote not only two distinct political stands, but also two different notions of tolerance: the liberal concept and the communitarian one. Finally, an attempt of joining these two different perspectives is located in the idea of human rights as substantive content of a moral education for toleration. Gonzalo Jover Olmeda Key words: Toleration, Xenophobia, European Union, Human Rights. Buy El autor mantiene que ciertas dificultades para una acción más decidida en este terreno, son debidas a la posible colisión entre los dos principios de la política educativa que estableció el Tratado de la Unión Europea, esto es, el principio de respeto a la diversidad cultural y el principio de subsidiariedad. Ambos principios no denotan sólo dos posturas políticas diferenciadas, sino que implican también dos conceptos diferentes de tolerancia: el liberal y el comunitario. Finalmente, se propone una posible vía de conciliación de estas dos perspectivas en la idea de los derechos humanos como contenido moral sustantivo de educación para la tolerancia. Gonzalo Jover Olmeda Descriptores: Tolerancia, Xenofobia, Unión Europea, Derechos humanos. Comprar