Social Dimensions of Education; Peace Theme # 2: Challenging Prejudice and Building Tolerance

1. Peace Theme 2
CHALLENGING PREJUDICE AND BUILDING TOLERANCE

2. Challenging Prejudice & Building Tolerance
 One of the problem in this world is how people think
negatively and act to something without any basis or
appropriate information.
 This attitude inflicts uttering of negative opinions and
doing negative acts towards a person. Thus it starts a
conflict and worse violence to others.

3. Challenging Prejudice & Building Tolerance
 So it is important that before you think of negative
thoughts to person see to it that you have basis because
peace starts with you. It starts on how you think and it
affects on how you act.

4. Challenging Prejudice & Building Tolerance
 According to Gordon Allport, humans have propensity
toward prejudice because of their generalizations and
categories they experience in this world.

5. What is Prejudice?
 Is the negative feeling or attitude towards a person or a
group even if it lacks basis
 (Negative feeling and Attitude)

6. What is Stereotype?
 It refers to the negative opinion about a person or group
based on incomplete knowledge.
 (Negative Opinion)

7. What is Discrimination?
 It refers to negative actions toward members of specific
social group that may be manifested in avoidance, aversion
or violence
 (Negative Actions or Violence)

8. Relationship of Prejudice, Stereotype
and Discrimination
 If you are stereotyping a person it means that you have
prejudice on that person and soon you will discriminate
that person depending on the degree of your prejudice.

9.  People are being unkind toward those who differ from
them in terms of skin color and other physical attributes,
ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or socio-economic class.
 We made “Differences” an excuse for prejudice and
exclusion.

10.  the main focus of Peace theme 2 is to build tolerance and
respect for the diversity and for other people for us to
avoid violence and to promote peace

11. Types of Prejudice
- Racism
- Sexism
- Heterosexism
- Classism
- Linguicism
- Ageism
- Lookism
- Religious Intolerance

12. Racism
 it is the belief that one’s own
cultural or racial heritage is
innately superior to that others,
hence, the lack of respect or
appreciation for those who
belong to a “different race”

13. Sexism
 it is a system of attitudes, actions and structures that
subordinates others on the basis of their sex where the
usual victims are women.

14. Heterosexism
 It is a negative attitude toward lesbians and gay men

15. Classism
 Distancing from and perceiving the poor as “the other”

16. Linguicism
 It is negative attitudes which members of dominant
language groups hold against non-dominant language
groups

17. Ageism
 It is a negative attitudes held against the young or elderly

18. Lookism
 Prejudice against those who do not measure up to
standards of beauty.
 The usual victims are overweight, undersized, and dark
skinned

19. Religious Intolerance
 It is a prejudice against those who are followers of religions
other than one’s own

20. Education for Tolerance and Respect
 One effective way to challenge a prejudice is by teaching
tolerance and respect.
 Tolerance is not tolerating what is unjust but it is
respecting, accepting and appreciating the rich diversity of
cultures and various forms of human expression

21. Why teach tolerance?
 They see education as effective way in teaching tolerance
and respect
 Tolerance is embracing and understanding other person’s
differences to avoid prejudice, stereotyping and
discrimination

22.  Teach them how to understand and to respect in order for
them to tolerate other people’s difference
 Let them be aware of their rights for them to be
responsible in not violating others rights

23.  Prejudice is more often occurred in school setting wherein
students discriminate others because of lack of proper
attitude so the role of the teacher is to educate students
the right and proper attitude for them to respect others
and tolerate diversities