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Schooling and social justice through the lenses of Nancy Fraser

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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Amanda KeddieAmanda Keddie
This review essay draws on Nancy Fraser's work as featured in Adding insult to injury: Nancy Fraser debates her critics to explore issues of schooling and social justice. The review focuses on the applicability and usefulness of Fraser's three dimensional model for understanding matters of justice in education. It begins with an overview of the principles of economic, cultural and political justice as they are reflected in specific examples of equity and schooling policy and practice. This is followed by (1) a consideration of Fraser's concerns that current forms of identity politics are reifying group identity and displacing matters of distributive justice and (2) with an account of her concerns about the political justice issues of representation and misframing in the contemporary global era. With reference to the sphere of Indigenous education, the review examines some of the problematics involved in pursuing distributive, recognitive and representative justice. Fraser's 'status model' is presented as a way through these problematics because it engages with a politics that begins with overcoming status subordination rather than with a politics of group identity. Against this theoretical backdrop, the final section of the review briefly considers some of the future challenges for schooling and social justice.

History

Volume

1

Chapter number

7

Pagination

146-167

ISBN-13

9781138827820

ISBN-10

1138827827

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter, B Book chapter

Copyright notice

2017, Routledge

Extent

81

Editor/Contributor(s)

Ball S

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon, Eng.

Title of book

Education policy

Series

Major Themes in Education