Educational justice : liberal ideals, persistent inequality, and the constructive uses of critique

Educational justice : liberal ideals, persistent inequality, and the constructive uses of critique / Michael S. Merry.

"With fluid and lucid prose, and a battery of compelling arguments, Michael Merry challenges influential liberal ideas about educational justice, such as that good public schools must be diverse, secular, and foster citizenship. This intrepid book is not only a provocative, philosophically astu...

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Main Author: Merry, Michael S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Subjects:
Education > Philosophy.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Education > Aims and objectives
Education > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Part I Educational Justice: Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Outline of the Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Justice and Education
  • Justice
  • Educational Justice
  • Equality
  • Parental Partiality
  • Taking Stock
  • Educational Policies for Justice
  • Weighted Pupil Funding
  • Integration
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Caveats
  • References
  • Part II Educational Justice: Appraising Three Liberal Commitments
  • Chapter 3 Educational Justice and the Public School
  • The School as Public Institution
  • The Ideal Public School
  • The Real Public School
  • Fiscal Resources
  • Teachers
  • Assessing the Liberal Defense of Public Schools
  • The Imaginary Public
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Educational Justice and Citizenship
  • Liberal Conceptions of Citizenship
  • Citizenship Theory and Practice: Mind the Gap
  • Citizenship and Historical Amnesia
  • Liberal Citizenship Revisited
  • Principles
  • Evidence
  • Citizenship Education: A Modest Pars Construens
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Educational Justice and Diversity
  • Problems with the Story of Integration and Diversity
  • Diversity and Majority Benefit
  • Remedies for Educational Injustice
  • Alternatives to Diversity-Centered Reform
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Part III Educational Justice: Exclusion, Ethics, and the Pragmatic Alternative
  • Chapter 6 Educational Justice and Inclusion
  • Disability
  • Liberal Conceptions of Disability
  • Inclusion
  • Inclusion and Education
  • Legal Background
  • Inclusion Interrogated
  • Autism
  • The Price of Inclusion for Autistics
  • What Does Educational Justice for Autistics Require?
  • The Limitations of Liberal Theory
  • Inclusion by Multiple Routes
  • Conclusions
  • Intended Aims
  • Organizational Processes
  • Inspection and Accountability
  • School Selection: A Typological Sketch
  • School A: 'Local Public'
  • School B: 'Magnet Public'
  • School C: 'Alternative Public'
  • Discussion
  • Intended Aims Examined
  • Organizational Processes Examined
  • Inspection and Accountability Examined
  • Case Study: Stuyvesant High School
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Educational Justice and Tentative Hope
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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