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Education and the adequacy of options: An interview with John White

Sardoč, M; White, J; (2018) Education and the adequacy of options: An interview with John White. Theory and Research in Education , 16 (1) pp. 118-131. 10.1177/1477878517746844. Green open access

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Abstract

Mitja Sardoč’s interview with John White discusses a neglected aspect of the educational goal of equipping learners to lead a life of autonomous well-being – trying to ensure that they have adequate options from which to choose worthwhile activities and relationships. Following a brief account of the nature of autonomous well-being, White outlines and critiques Joseph Raz’s views on the adequacy of options in general as well as an earlier inadequate approach of his own to this topic in relation to the school curriculum. He then picks up and critically discusses Eamonn Callan’s curricular suggestions about how to open up a range of options. Drawing on both these discussions, the interview then leads to a threefold proposal about how schools and other agencies could go about providing the adequate range required. The last two short sections underline the wider changes needed in society if the work of these educational institutions is to bear fruit.

Type: Article
Title: Education and the adequacy of options: An interview with John White
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/1477878517746844
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878517746844
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Education, Well-being, Autonomy, Options, Curriculum
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121324
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