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This paper focuses on an especially urgent challenge to the legitimacy of the common school ideal—a challenge that has hardly been addressed within contemporary debates within liberal philosophy of education. The challenge arises from claims to accommodation by queer people and queer communities—claims that are based on notions of queerness and que...
Recently, several groups in the United States and Canada-for example, American Indian/First Nations people, African-American males, and the deaf-have claimed the right to receive state support for cultural identity schools-that is, separate schools whose educational aims and practices are designed to reinforce a particular cultural identity. It is...
The main thesis we want to defend in this article is that learning about nationalism from a historical, sociological, and normative point of view constitutes one important, but rather neglected, dimension of a good citizenship education. Although the debate about nationalism and education has received considerable attention from political and educa...
This article considers the question of whether policies that propose to forbid public officials, most notably teachers, from wearing religious clothing in the classroom can be justified by political principles of secularism – specifically, the principle of state neutrality and the principle of state autonomy from religious influence. Two prominent...
This paper criticizes mainstream philosophical justifications for paternalism in children's education, highlighting their exclusion of students labelled with intellectual disability. Most philosophical justifications of paternalism presume "able-mindedness"-that is, they presume that learners possess the potential to develop capacities of rationali...
Quelles sont les limites raisonnables encadrant l’enseignement de sujets controversés ? L’article suivant vise la réponse à cette question et propose, pour ce faire, de dégager certains principes juridiquement fondés qui guideront la pratique professionnelle du corps enseignant. L’analyse de la jurisprudence pertinente du Canada et des États-Unis,...
Why do society and the courts so readily recognize university and college teachers’ academic freedom but just as readily deny primary and secondary school teachers the same right? To investigate this question, this article considers teachers’ work in light of the standard justifications for granting academic freedom in higher education: that academ...
This is an introduction to the special issue on Quebec's Ethics and Religious Culture program. If you would like to review a free copy of the introduction, this link provides a free reading to the first 50 viewers: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HRugdUvhhv4nYjb2isWH/full
Our analysis revealed four principles that set limits on teachers' right to classroom free speech: curriculum alignment, even-handedness, age appropriateness and avoidance of inflammatory material.�These four principles are a useful guide for teachers and teacher educators.�However, the protections afforded to teacher free speech remain limited, so...
In Canada, several universities have recently implemented course requirements in Indigenous studies as a condition of graduation, while others are considering following suit. Policies making Indigenous course requirements (hereafter ICRs) compulsory have caused considerable controversy. According to proponents, a main purpose of ICRs is to address...
In this essay, Bruce Maxwell, David Waddington, Kevin McDonough, Andrée‐Anne Cormier, and Marina Schwimmer compare two competing approaches to social integration policy, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism, from the perspective of the issue of the state funding and regulation of conservative religious schools. After identifying the key difference...
In this article, I propose that a careful consideration of liberal-democratic aims of education is essential for evaluating the quality of the Ethics and Religious Culture program's (ERC's) stated aims, and the adequacy of its strategy for implementing those aims. The core of the author's argument is that the ERC fails to distinguish clearly betwee...
IntroductionQueer Theory Meets Liberalism: Futurity, Autonomy and FlourishingLiberal Autonomy and ‘Futurity’Equal Consideration: What is the Difference between Spelunking and Queerness?Queer Children and the FamilyLiberalism, the Common School Ideal and Queer FuturesConclusion: Queer Theory and Liberalism—Is a Civil Union Possible?NotesReferences
ABSTRACTR. M. Hare has argued for and defended a ‘two-level’, view of moral agency. He argues that moral agents ought to rely on the rules of ‘intuitive moral thinking’ for their ‘everyday’ moral judgments. When these rules conflict or when we do not have a rule at hand, we ought to ascend to the act-utilitarian,‘critical’ level of moral thinking....
The essays in the volume address educational issues that arise when national, sub-national, and supra-national identities compete. These include: how to determine the limits to parental educational rights when liberalism's concern to protect and promote children's autonomy conflicts with the desire to maintain communal integrity; whether, given the...
The essays in Part III of the book, on liberal constraints and traditionalist education, argue for a more regulatory conception of liberal education and emphasize the need for some controls over cultural and religious educational authority. Kevin McDonough's essay, on multinational civic education, develops a conception of this that allows for both...
The paper develops and contrasts two views about the role of examples in moral education — one based on R.M. Hare's recent two-level conception of moral reasoning and one based on Aristotle's conception ofphronesis. It concludes that a Harean view leads to a harmful and impoverished form of moral education by encouraging children to ignore or disto...
University Microfilms order no. 9512482. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994. Includes bibliographical references.
