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- Title
The Matter of Justice.
- Authors
Greene, Maxine
- Abstract
The article presents information on the author's comments on the book "Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America," by Christopher Jencks and others. The author insists that justice must be the central value of the school. She points out that justice can be achieved only when the lot of the least favored, the least endowed, can be improved. Educational benefits refer not only to some sort of compensatory income program, but to the enhancement of possibilities for growth, for enriched experience, and for an openness towards life's occasions. Assuming a prevailing inequality in the society, the author feels that one also have to assume a pervasive injustice that affects the functioning of all institutions, including the public schools. Justice cannot become the central value if teachers do not learn to act consciously on principle, if they have no means of determining when the distinctions they make are relevant, whether the distribution of educational benefits is fair. Learning involves a willingness to pose disturbing questions, to take risks, to look through new perspectives upon the familiar life-world.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States education system; INEQUALITY: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family &; Schooling in America (Book); EDUCATIONAL equalization laws; EDUCATION policy; PUBLIC institutions; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation; EQUALITY; EDUCATIONAL programs
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1973, Vol 75, Issue 1, p181
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146817307500206