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Fresh Perspectives on School Choice
Author(s) -
Ferrero David J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.0309-8249.2004.00383.x
Subject(s) - pluralism (philosophy) , sociology , school choice , salient , civic virtue , politics , panacea (medicine) , perspective (graphical) , philosophy of education , public service , classical liberalism , institution , public administration , social science , public relations , political science , environmental ethics , epistemology , higher education , law , liberalism , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
School choice advocacy is dominated by perspectives that reflect a tendency to regard public schooling as a private service commodity. In recent years, numerous works of Anglo‐American political philosophy, sociology and legal theory have attempted to restore a conception of public schooling as an institution that cultivates civic virtue. Counterintuitively, these works also endorse prudently regulated school choice as a means of honouring public purposes while accommodating pluralism within liberal democracies. Four such recent works help outline the salient dimensions of this perspective and the disputes within it. While not a political panacea, this perspective ought to inform public deliberations about school choice and public education generally in Anglophone nations.