Creating a Culture of Tolerance in Schools

Abstract

The purposes of this article are to establish the relationships be tween prejudice or intolerance and hate-motivated school violence; to describe the aspects of school climate or culture that foster prejudice, stereotyping, and scapegoating; and, to provide examples of interventions educators might use, both individually and systemically, to create a school culture of tolerance and re spect for individual and group differences as a means for preventing bias motivated violent incidents.

Key Words:

• Tolerance
• hate-motivated school violence
• school violence prevention
• anti-bias education
• hate crimes in schools
• school climate and violence