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ERIC Number: EJ982246
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Aug
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 35
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0309-8249
Fair Educational Opportunity and the Distribution of Natural Ability: Toward a Prioritarian Principle of Educational Justice
Schouten, Gina
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v46 n3 p472-491 Aug 2012
In this article, I develop and defend a prioritarian principle of justice for the distribution of educational resources. I argue that this principle should be conceptualized as directing educators to confer a general benefit, where that benefit need not be mediated by improved academic outcomes. I go on to argue that it should employ a metric of all-things-considered flourishing over the course of the student's lifetime. Finally, I discuss the relationship between my proposed prioritarian principle and the meritocratic principle that it is presumed to supplement. (Contains 28 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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