Educational Justice: Liberal Ideals, Persistent Inequality, and the Constructive Uses of Critique By Michael S. Merry

Authors : Eda ABBASİOĞLU AKKAYA

Pages : 943-946

Doi:10.30828/real/2021.4.6

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Publication Date : 2021-12-29

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :This book was written with the aim of discussing the ideas taken for granted about the school system in terms of educational justice. The author offers a clear and strong arguments to find the answers to the question how it is possible to find a fair school system with empirical, sociological and philosophical approaches. The discussions and examples given make the readers to query their own ideas and beliefs related to educational justice. The author has been successful in discussing the ideas of liberals on the one hand and the advocates of the present school system on the other. The interrelations among students, parents and school system which have been inured are also elaborately handled. Readers encounter with many disputed liberal thoughts on educational justice and some examples or compared ideas of the advocates of the contrast beliefs.
Keywords : book review, educational justice, Michael S Merry