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EGALITARIANISM AND EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE

EDPOL/PHILOS 540
Course Description

Examines significant disagreements about educational justice-about the very concept of educational justice; about the most plausible substantive account of educational justice and the way that an ideal of equality bears on it; and about what kinds of policies the most plausible account of educational justice would require in circumstances like our own. Introduces tools that contemporary moral and political philosophers use to investigate those questions. Understand and evaluate efforts to resolve those questions.

Prerequisties

Junior standing

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Credits

3

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