Tolerance – from human value to teacher professional attitude

The democratisation and globalization of modern society at the social, political, and cultural levels in recent decades has created new challenges for education systems around the world, but also the agencies involved. Ethnic-cultural and other types of diversity have spread more and more in educational and work environments from all over the world and from the Romanian space. Ensuring the right, opportunities, and equal opportunities related to education for all children, regardless of their socio-economic-cultural background, is one of the educational ideals of the modern education system, a vector of school activity in the context of diversity imposed by globalization. All agents directly or indirectly involved in the educational activities support the reforms in the field of education to ensure and promote a type of inclusive education. In this context, we need to emphasize the importance of general human values, and especially of tolerance, both in everyday life and in school life. This article is intended to be a review of approaches to the term tolerance and shaping the profile of the competent teacher from an intercultural point of view, a desirable profile in today’s educational and social context.