Swift, ARG;
Clayton, M;
Mason, A;
Wareham, R;
(2019)
The political morality of school composition: the case of religious selection.
British Journal of Political Science
10.1017/S0007123418000649.
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Abstract
This article presents a normative framework for the assessment of education policies and applies it to the issue of schools’ selecting their students on the basis of religious criteria. Such policies can be justified, and challenged, on many different grounds; public debate is not conducted in terms adequate to the task. The authors’ main objectives are to supplement with non-consequentialist considerations a recent, consequentialist, approach to the normative assessment of education policy proposed by Brighouse et al. (2016, 2018), and to apply the proposed framework to issues of school composition and selection. They argue, further, that policies allowing schools to select all their students on the basis of their parents’ religious affiliation cannot be justified.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The political morality of school composition: the case of religious selection |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0007123418000649 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123418000649 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Cambridge University Press 2019.. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | education policy; school admissions; religious schools; parents’ rights; children’s rights |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061920 |
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