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“The Public” in Public Schools: The Social Construction/Constriction of Moral Communities
Author(s) -
Fine Michelle
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1990.tb00275.x
Subject(s) - ideology , sociology , social exclusion , moral education , public education , criminology , political science , public relations , social psychology , pedagogy , public administration , psychology , law , politics
The question posed in this paper is: How do public schools, which are supposed to be universally accessible moral communities, engage in patterns of systematic exclusion? Through three case studies of public secondary schools, in each of which issues of exclusion of groups of students have arisen, this analysis pierces educational ideologies of “merit,” “choice,” and “tradition” as they have justified moral exclusion from public education.