Seeking the Common Good in Education through a Positive Conception of Social Justice

Autor/inn/en	Arthur, James; Kristjánsson, Kristján; Vogler, Candace
Titel	Seeking the Common Good in Education through a Positive Conception of Social Justice
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 69 (2021) 1, S.101-117 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2020.1724259
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Education; Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildung; Erziehung; Philosophie
Abstract	Many Faculties of Education in the UK and elsewhere have 'social justice' written into their mission statements. But are they concerned by questions of social justice in education, or has the term become somewhat vacuous and devoid of substantive meaning? The present article subjects recent discourses about social justice in education to scrutiny and finds them wanting in various respects, in particular when juxtaposed with historical accounts of justice by philosophers such as Aristotle or Aquinas. Among the complaints made here is that most educational accounts: (1) make do with a 'negative' conception of social justice as focused on specific cases of injustices without any positive conception of what social justice means in its entirety; (2) foreground institutional justice at the expense of justice as a moral or civic virtue; (3) fail to connect the identification of justice or injustice to an account of "phronesis" or practical wisdom for integrating values; (4) shy away from associating social justice with the 'common good'; and (5) fail to get to grips with some thorny normative questions about the role of justice in the ordering of goods in a hierarchy towards the highest good. Along the way, various remedies are suggested. (As Provided).
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