Equality in Education - Why We Must Go All the Way
In this paper I present and defend a highly demanding principle of justice in education that has not been seriously discussed thus far. According to the suggested approach, all the way equality, justice in education requires nothing short of equal educational outcome between all individual student...
| Published in: | Ethical theory and moral practice |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
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| In: |
Ethical theory and moral practice
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCC Social ethics VA Philosophy ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
Distributive Justice
B parental rights B Educational equality B Equality in outcome B Educational adequacy B philosophy of education |
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| Summary: | In this paper I present and defend a highly demanding principle of justice in education that has not been seriously discussed thus far. According to the suggested approach, all the way equality, justice in education requires nothing short of equal educational outcome between all individual students. This means not merely between equally able children, or between children from different groups and classes, but rather between all children, regardless of social background, race, sex and ability. This approach may seem implausible at first, due to the far-reaching implications it entails, primarily its requirement to deny better-off children their advantage for the sake of equality. However the paper argues that all-the-way-equality, in fact, does a better job realizing the goals of justice in education than alternative conceptions of justice. It is further argued that at least some of the principles most radical consequences, those that make it seem counterintuitive, can be mitigated by balancing all-the-way-equality with competing interests. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9587-3 |