ERIC Number: EJ993422
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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What Would a Socially Just Education System Look like?: Saving the Minnows from the Pike
Reay, Diane
Journal of Education Policy, v27 n5 p587-599 2012
This paper first draws on the political philosophy of R.H. Tawney to outline some universal principles for the provision of socially just education. It then moves onto a more pragmatic approach, analysing where the injustices lie in contemporary British education and outlining policies and practices that are socially just, not in an instrumental neoliberal sense but in terms of more egalitarian social democratic and socialist traditions. The final section of the paper focuses on Finland as the closest example of a socially just education system, before arguing for a rethinking and reworking of Tawney's educational thinking for the twenty-first century. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Educational Principles, Equal Education, Social Justice, Educational Practices, Best Practices, Educational Policy, Social Bias, Educational Discrimination, Instructional Systems, Access to Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland; United Kingdom
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