Social Justice, Epistemology and Educational Reform

The paper explores the work of four contemporary theorists of educational reform, following deep currents in epistemology and the theory of rationality. An examination of the positions yields a controversial epistemological conclusion which promotes the examination of philosophical issues relevant to education and the modernist/postmodernist debate.     

社会分化与教育公平

目前,我国的教育公平问题主要表现为阶层不公平、城乡不公平、地域不公平和学段不公平.从本质上讲,它不仅是一个教育问题,也不仅是一个经济问题,而更是一个政治问题.其根源在于市场化背景下的日益加剧的社会分化,尤其是阶层分化.教育公平问题能否妥善解决好,从根本上取决于政府及各级教育行政部门的立场、态度和决心.只要各级政府及教育行政部门从应有的政治立场出发,以严肃认真的态度,下定决心来处理问题,政治上反对特权化--阶层特权、城市特权、区域特权、精英特权,坚持阶层公平、城乡公平、区域公平、学段公平,坚持教育为人民服务,为民族服务;经济上反对资本化、产业化,坚持教育的人民性、公益性,教育公平问题就能够得到令人满意的解决.     

The Intersection of Social Justice and Educational Technology: The Educational Technology Social Justice Matrix

Education and Information Technologies - This paper presents the Educational Technology Social Justice Matrix based on a review of thirty-eight recent papers from a search for the terms...     

社会公平与教育机会均等

本文立足于构建和谐社会的时代背景,从理论上分析了社会公平与教育机会均等二者的应然关系,从现实中考察了社会公平的目标追求与教育机会在区域、阶层和性别上严重不均的矛盾,提出了公平与效率兼顾、层次推进的发展思路,以及采取差异策略,促进地区之间的教育机会均等;扶持弱势群体,促进阶层之间的教育机会均等;制定鼓励性政策,促进不同性别之间的教育机会均等的操作策略.     

浅议教育公平、教育平等和教育效率的关系

追求教育公平,促进教育平等,提高教育效率是构建社会主义和谐社会的主要内容,也是发展教育的主旨所在。教育公平是教育事业的价值追求和永恒理想,是教育平等和教育效率相互促进从而达到的一种理想状态。促进教育平等和提高教育效率可以并行共进,教育公平是教育平等和教育效率二者水平不断提高的和谐发展状态。     

Ironies and Limitations of Educational Leadership for Social Justice: A Call to Social Justice Educators

In this article that reviews this special issue, we identify 5 ironies and limitations of educational leadership for social justice: (a) the meaning of inclusive practice, (b) the intersection of identity and difference, (c) the emphasis given to student achievement, (d) the lack of policy and practice coherence, and (e) the separation of superheroes from critical collaborative leadership. Although we discuss each issue separately, these conceptions are interrelated and intersecting. We conclude with a call to educators for social justice to change their work in several fundamental ways.     

Educational Justice,Epistemic Justice,and Leveling Down

Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that education is a positional good; this, they hold, implies that there is a qualified case for leveling down educational provision. In this essay, Ben Kotzee discusses Brighouse and Swift's argument for leveling down. He holds that the argument fails in its own terms and that, in presenting the problem of educational justice as one of balancing education's positional and nonpositional benefits, Brighouse and Swift lose sight of what a consideration of the nonpositional benefits by itself can reveal. Instead of focusing on education's positional benefits, Kotzee investigates what emphasizing education's nonpositional benefits would imply for educational justice. Drawing on recent work in social epistemology, Kotzee holds that theories of educational justice would benefit from a consideration of the virtue of epistemic justice, and he outlines solutions to a number of problems in the area from this perspective.     

教育券与教育公平研究——以浙江长兴县与美国密尔沃基市教育券实施为例

文章对教育券的基本内容作了较为详细的阐述,并对浙江长兴县与美国密尔沃基市教育券的实施作了比较,指出作为新生事物的教育券有助于实现教育公平,实现民办教育和公办教育的平等地位.     

Social Class and Educational Research

Social class has always been one of the most prominent variables in educational research, yet the various ways of classifying it have never ceased to be controversial. The author reviews the major classifications, assesses their validity, surveys the use made of them in research literature, suggests how they should be interpreted, and assesses to what degree findings couched in these terms correspond to the reality of social differences in Britain.     

试析教育公正及其实现

教育公正是社会公正的重要组成部分,但是由于种种原因,我国不同的地区、不同的学校之间,教育发展不平衡;不同的学校、学生之间机会不平等,只有在教育过程中贯彻社会公正的基本原则,教育公正才能真正的实现。     

The Comparative Impacts of Social Justice Educational Methods on Political Participation,Civic Engagement,and Multicultural Activism

This cross-sectional, repeated measures, quasi-experimental study evaluates changes in college students’ commitment toward, and confidence in, political participation, civic engagement, and multicultural activism. Our sample (n = 653) consisted of college students in a Midwestern university who participated in one of three social justice education course types (service learning, intergroup dialogue, or lecture-based diversity classes) or in an “introduction to psychology” course (the non-intervention group). After completion of a social justice education course, students reported an increase in political participation and multicultural activism, whereas students enrolled in the non-intervention group reported no changes in these measures. Service learning course participants started and ended their course with the highest reported levels of political participation, civic engagement, and multicultural activism but did not demonstrate an increase in any of the three outcomes. Intergroup dialogue participants demonstrated increases in all three outcomes, while participants of lecture-based classes focusing on social justice issues demonstrated increases in political participation and multicultural activism, but not civic engagement. Our findings suggest that participation in social justice education courses is associated with increases in political participation and multicultural activism.     

社会公正与社会和谐——基于MBO的思考

社会公正具公共性、权威性、公开性、利益性、心理性,主要有准则的公正、程序的公正和补救的公正。我国中小国企在改制中推行“管理层收购”,但国有资产流失,社会补救工作滞后、不力等都是我们不愿看到的负面效应,由此而产生的社会不和谐因素依然存在。实现社会公正对建设和谐社会具有重要意义。     

我国目前的教育机会分配与教育公平

本分析了现行的教育机会分配方式与对教育公平的影响，指出在教育机会数量和质量分配中仍存在一些危害教育公平的现象，并对完善教育机会分配，促进教育公平提出了对策性建议。