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Autonomy As a Liberal Justification: Three Objections.

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  • Title: Autonomy As a Liberal Justification: Three Objections.
  • Author : Journal of Thought
  • Release Date : January 22, 2007
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 200 KB

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Introduction In the public schools of culturally diverse, liberal democratic nations such as Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, there is a tension engendered by tenets of the liberal ideal. The essential liberal commitments to tolerance and pluralism can, in a diverse public school system, run up against opposing illiberal commitments held by the parents of schoolchildren in the democratic state. The liberal commitments encourage not only a recognition of, say, racial, religious, cultural, and sexual diversity, but also implicitly or explicitly support the rights of individuals--including students--to choose from these various ways of life and their associated commitments. However, because there are parents for whom such recognition and endorsement might undermine or threaten religious or cultural ideals, the public school, as an arm of the liberal state, finds itself in a difficult position. For, on one hand the liberal state is committed to the principle of tolerance and the acceptance of cultural pluralism, but on the other hand, among this plurality could be a group whose beliefs, if tolerated or accommodated in the public school, would undermine the instillation of the essential liberal ideals of which we speak. This conflict has been noted by several philosophers of education (Mendus, 1995; Burtonwood, 2000) and the tension is articulated plainly in Dwight Boyd's "Dominance Concealed through Diversity: Implications of Inadequate Perspectives on Cultural Pluralism." Summarizing what he calls the "dilemma of diversity," Boyd writes that:


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