Education, Justice and the Human Good
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Education, Justice and the Human Good

Fairness and equality in the education system

  1. 166 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Education, Justice and the Human Good

Fairness and equality in the education system

About this book

The education system is faced with many demands of justice. What these demands imply and how they are justified is, however, disputed. In this book, international contributors present cutting edge research to discuss the relationship between educational justice and the value of education.By combining reflections on educational justice with reflections on the human good and the aims of education, the book reveals that it is not enough to assess certain patterns of distribution; the value of what is to be distributed must also be clarified. In this respect, deliberations about the value of education have to play an integral part in giving an account of educational justice.

Questions addressed in the volume include:

- In what sense should justice, fairness and equality be realised in the education system?
- How is educational equality related to equality of opportunity?
- Is the main concern that everyone should be educated equally well – or just well enough? Education, Justice and the Human Good discusses the positional value of education and its relation to educational justice, emphasising that education is valuable not only for competitive reasons, but in its contribution to human flourishing. The book will appeal to those from the field of the philosophy of education as well as applied political philosophy, from undergraduates to professional academics.

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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780415714808
eBook ISBN
9781134698202
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The place of educational equality in educational justice
  10. 2 Unequal chances: Race, class and schooling
  11. 3 Non-comparative justice in education
  12. 4 Educational justice and the justification of education
  13. 5 A neo-Aristotelian account of education, justice, and the human good
  14. 6 What does equality in education mean?
  15. 7 Fair equality of opportunity and educational justice
  16. 8 Educational justice and talent advancement
  17. Index