Autore: Duru-Bellat, Marie
Titolo: Questioning Fairness and Meritocracy within School and Beyond
Periodico: Scuola democratica : strategie educative e territorio
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 207 - Pagina finale: 224

In this paper, the issue of school fairness is dealt with focussing on what school wants every pupil to acquire, as far as knowledge and also values are concerned. Based on both a normative approach and some empirical studies, the paper explores first what are the prevailing conceptions of social justice among pupils, and shows that while they are generally ambivalent about the fairness of school, globally, they support meritocracy. Then, the paper maintains that this conception of social justice as meritocracy should lead them to criticize world inequality. It sets out that it is the school job to make pupils conscious that success or failure are not only individual matters, a belief that has many deleterious effects at the individual and at the global levels, notably in the political domain. Beyond promoting values such as cosmopolitism, school can also teach the interdependent facts characterizing the world: global inequalities, global economics, links with environmental problems, all these issues mobilizing subjects such as biological sciences, history and geography, economics, social sciences, civic and moral education, as well as philosophy. The paper underlines, to end, that school is a perfect place to teach young people that inequalities (at the individual and the global level) cannot be explained and justified by merit, so that they may later on have some influence upon politicians to deal with these problems.




SICI: 1129-731X(2025)1<207:QFAMWS>2.0.ZU;2-9
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