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ERIC Number: EJ1373278
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Mar
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1477-8785
EISSN: EISSN-1741-3192
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Pity the Unready and the Unwilling: Choice, Chance, and Injustice in Martin's 'The Right to Higher Education'
Cook, Philip
Theory and Research in Education, v21 n1 p82-87 Mar 2023
For Martin, the right to free higher education may be claimed only by those ready and willing pursue autonomy supporting higher education. The unready and unwilling, among whom may be counted carers, disabled, and devout, are excluded. This is unjust. I argue that this injustice follows from a tension between three elements of Martin's argument: (1) a universal right to autonomy supporting higher education; (2) qualifications on entitlements to access this right in order to preserve the value of higher educational goods; (3) luck egalitarian motivations in Martin's distributive ethics. I consider options for avoiding such injustices and their implications for Martin's argument.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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