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ERIC Number: EJ453785
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Liberal Democracy, Equal Educational Opportunity, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism.
Howe, Kenneth R.
American Educational Research Journal, v29 n3 p455-70 Fall 1992
Considers the general meaning of equal educational opportunity and its meaning in the context of specific policies, with an eye toward providing a philosophically grounded examination of equal educational opportunity as it applies to multicultural education. Describes how progressive liberal educational theory can meet the challenges of multicultural education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Cultural Differences, Democracy, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Liberalism, Minority Groups, Multicultural Education, Public Policy, School Choice
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Reform Efforts
Note: Version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL, April 3-7, 1991).