Teachers and the Challenges of Promoting Diversity, Preventing Hate Speech, andMitigating Its Impact in Cameroonian Schools

Abstract

School milieu possesses enormous potential, bringing together a vast array of resources linked byeducational practices and pedagogical innovation. They are also spaces where students, these immaturebeings, acquire the knowledge imparted by teachers. Once a place where moral values reigned,educational milieu have become a jungle where a war of all against all is waged, a war fueled by hatespeech. In other words, divisive rhetoric, a truly alien phenomenon, has become the daily lot of theseenvironments. Appearing as a current social scourge, it is therefore necessary to take a retrospectivelook at the role of teachers in promoting diversity, preventing, and mitigating hate speech inCameroonian schools. To conduct this study, historical and sociological texts, as well as surveys ofteachers, are employed. To better address this work, two major areas were examined: the foundationsand expressions of hate speech, and teachers as a key to instilling positive values and a symbol of socialcohesion.