The Problem of Teaching Tolerance as a Leading Educational Value and the Basis of Productive Cross-Cultural Interaction

Abstract

The article introduces tolerance training in the classroom as a part of a broader paradigm of teaching culture and intercultural communication skills in the process of foreign language instruction. After a brief discussion on how tolerance is currently understood in Ukraine and in the world, tolerance is presented as, firstly, one of the leading values in modern education and, secondly, as the basis of productive cross-cultural interaction. They conclude with an example of an ESL workshop that embodies the paradigm of culture-based language teaching and targets tolerance as its primary educational goal.