Merry Educational Justice

Liberal Ideals, Persistent Inequality, and the Constructive Uses of Critique
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-36023-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

2020 Finalist for Book of the Year Award, North American Society of Social and Political Philosophy (NASSP)

This book examines the philosophical, motivational, and practical challenges of education theory, policy, and practice in the twenty-first century. There is a loud and persistent drum beat of support for schools, for citizenship, for diversity and inclusion, and increasingly for labor market readiness with very little critical attention to the assumptions underlying these agendas, let alone to their many internal contradictions. Merry does not neglect the historical, comparative international context so essential to better understanding where we are, as well as what is attainable in terms of educational justice. He argues that we must constructively critique some of our most cherished beliefs about education if we are to save the hope of real justice from the rhetoric of imagined justice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merry, Michael S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Justice and Education.- 3. Educational Justice and the Public School.- 4. Educational Justice and Citizenship.- 5. Educational Justice and Diversity.- 6. Educational Justice and Inclusion.- 7. Educational Justice and Religious Schools.- 8. Educational Justice and Selection.- 9. Educational Justice and the Tentative Hope.-

Über Autor(innen)

Michael S. Merry is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.