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Education and Equality

By: Danielle Allen

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Hardcover | 14 June 2016 | Edition Number 1

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160 Pages

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This book features Danielle Allen's 2014 Tanner Lectures, delivered at Stanford University, along with comments from four distinguished contributors-Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby; education and globalization scholar Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (UCLA); Michael Rebell, executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia; and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes-along with Allen's response to the commentaries.
Why it is so hard to think about education and equality in relation to each other? Allen asks. For all of our talk about the two, we don't actually talk much about how education itself relates to equality, regardless of whether the equality we have in mind is human, political, or social, or connected to economic fairness. The basic problem that motivates these lectures, then, is the following: Allen thinks that education itself-a practice of human development-has important contributions to make to the defense of human equality, the cultivation of political and social equality, and the emergence of fair economic orders. But she thinks we have lost sight of just how education relates to those egalitarian concerns. If we are to do right by the students we purport to educate, in whatever context and at whatever level, we need to recover that vision. Allen's goal, therefore, is to recover our understanding of just how education and equality are intrinsically connected to each other.

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"[A]n ambitious and rich blend of themes. Baldly summarized, they offer a defense of the place of humanities and social sciences in the curriculum, a variant on familiar objections to governments' current preoccupation with the "vocational" and promotion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). But her framing the argument in terms of connections between education and equality is excitingly distinctive, and her route to her conclusion engages with an unusual range of influences and modes of theorizing.... Overall it shows the value of sustained engagement with a range of academic disciplines and approaches, both theoretical and empirical.... Allen's big ideas come through loud and clear."-- "Ethics"
"Danielle Allen ... is a pragmatic visionary. ... The implicit argument is that being democratic and being happy, possessed of well-being, is in our self-interest. An explicit argument, refreshing to read, is that the humanities are essential to such happiness." --Catharine R. Stimpson "Public Books"

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