Can the Liberal State Support Cultural Identity Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin McDonough (0000-0001-6308-0747, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 463-499 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/444195 |
| OpenAlex | W2017362009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
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 widely assumed that liberalism must be committed to a principle of cultural neutrality that prevents a liberal state from assigning legitimacy to such demands. This article provides a close examination of the ethical principles a liberal state may adduce in making political judgments about such matters. First, two dominant perspectives that have emerged recently within liberal political and educational theory are developed and critically evaluated and their educational implications examined. Specifically, a distinction between "strong" and "moderate" cultural identity schools is identified, and it is argued that a liberal state may legitimately support the latter but not the former. I conclude by considering several contextual factors a liberal state may have to consider in determining the legitimacy of specific demands for moderate cultural identity schools, especially demands made by disadvantaged minority cultural groups
Aesthetics · Cultural identity · Disadvantaged · Higher education · Identity (music · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Liberalism · Neutrality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Religious Education and Schools
How Choice Changes the Education System
A tale of two schools
Religious Education in Non-Religious Schools
Groups in Context
Education, Values, and Valuing in Cosmopolitan Perspective
Education for Autonomy
When Choice Does Not Matter
Why Liberal State Funding of Denominational Schools Cannot be Unconditional
Citizenship Education and Liberalism
Committed to Ethnicity, Committed to America
Dealing with Difference
Savage inequalities
Postethnic America
The Morality of Pluralism
Civic Education and Social Diversity
Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
The Politics of Recognition
Terms of Inclusion
Kymlicka, Liberalism, and Respect for Cultural Minorities
Political Liberalism and Political Education
The Rights of Minority Cultures
Are there any Cultural Rights
Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism
The Afrocentric Idea in Education
The theoretical foundations of liberalism
To Walk in Two Worlds-Or More? Challenging a Common Metaphor of Native Education
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2015 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |