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Publication Date: 2025
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Structural Educational Injustice, Political Responsibility, and Epistemic Activism
Ethics and Education, v20 n2-3 p235-256 2025
Despite recent scholarship in political theory that shifts the focus of injustice from agents to social structures, educational justice scholarship in philosophy of education remains primarily individualistic as regards the causes of injustice. However, it seems that agents' actions are more constrained than individualistic accounts suggest and that educational injustice is largely the result of structural processes. Accordingly, it is argued that scholars should focus on the political instead of the moral responsibility of agents for disrupting educational injustice. This is suggestive of an epistemic activist approach to advancing educational justice that utilizes the power of social movements to disrupt the structural conditions that support educational injustice. The example of unjust school punishment in the United States is used as a case in point.
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Social Justice, Responsibility, Epistemology, Activism, Discipline, Punishment, Ethics
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Author Affiliations: 1UCF Center for Ethics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA