A5076220792- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Religious Education and Schools
- School Choice and Performance
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Ethics in medical practice
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Political Theory and Influence
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2014-2024
Aims Community College
2019
University of California, San Diego
2019
Northwestern University
2019
New York University
2019
University of California, Los Angeles
2019
Cambridge University Press
2010
University of Wisconsin System
2008
Madison Group (United States)
2004
Universidad de Londres
2003
1. Liberal Theory and Educational Policy 2. The Case for Choice 3. Three Red Herrings 4. Autonomy-Facilitating Education 5. Objections to 6. Equality 7. 8. Social Justice Actually-Existing School 9. For Justice?
Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part One Liberty, Equality, Family 1 Introduction 2 Chapter Liberalism and the 5 Equality 23 Two Justifying 47 48 3 Children 57 4 Adults 86 Three Parents' Rights 113 114 Conferring Advantage 123 6 Shaping Values 149 Conclusion 175 Notes 183 Bibliography 201 Index 213
“Educational equity” is universally lauded but equally ill-defined. At least five contrasting meanings of equity are in current use: equal distributions outcomes across populations; for every child; resource allocations students, schools, districts, states, or nations; experiences each and levels growth by child. Furthermore, these conceptions themselves often subsumed to concerns benefiting the less advantaged, ensuring educational adequacy, prioritizing short-term benefits versus long-term...
Perhaps the most intractable aspect of gender inequality concerns inequalities within family around domestic division labor, especially over child care and other forms caregiving. These enduring constitute a significant obstacle to achieving “strong egalitarianism”—a structure social relations in which labor housework caregiving occupational distributions public sphere are unaffected by gender. This article explores three kinds publicly supported parental leaves that bear on potential for...
Research on well-being and concern over the of students teachers has grown dramatically in recent years. Researchers reformers positive psychology education, self-determination theory, social emotional learning, liberal-democratic political educational philosophy, neo-Aristotelian theories flourishing character education have played formative intersecting roles what is now an international movement to promote lifelong as alternative a human capital economic growth focus for education. This...
abstract Some theorists argue that rather than advocating a principle of educational equality as component theory justice in education, egalitarians should adopt adequacy. This paper looks at two recent attempts to show adequacy, not equality, constitutes education. It responds the criticisms by claiming they are either unsuccessful or merely other values also important, is important. argues adequacy cannot be all there
This article articulates a framework suitable for use when making decisions about education policy. Decision makers should establish what the feasible options are and evaluate them in terms of their contribution to development, distribution, educational goods children, balanced against negative effect policies on important independent values. The theory by reference six capacities that children develop – economic productivity, autonomy, democratic competence, healthy personal relationships,...
Chapter 1 Preface 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction: Critical Moral Liberalism, an Overview Part 4 I: Theory 5 Feminism, and Multiculturalism: The Ironic Destiny of Western Philosophy 6 Postmodern Argumentation Post-postmodern with Comments on Levinas, Habermas, Rawls 7 Drug Addiction, Liberal Virtue, Responsibility 8 Labor the Difference Principle 9 Constitution, Rights, Conditions Legitimacy 10 II: Practice 11 Privacy, Intimacy, Personhood 12 Driving to Panopticon: A Philosophical...
Educational equality is one important value of justice in education, but it only one. This article makes a case for meritocratic principle educational and shows that certain arguments against do not justify rejecting it. It would be wrong to, the sake equality, undermine family or economic growth ways damage prospects flourishing least advantaged. But insofar as can improved without harming those other values, should pursued; practice, pursued effectively within limits set by values.