Living with Moral Disagreement ：The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action

Publication subTitle ：The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action

Author： Michele S. Moses  

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780226344416

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226344249

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780226344386

Subject： G4 Education

Keyword： 教育

Language： ENG

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Description

How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies—especially within the realm of educational opportunity. In this book, philosopher Michele S. Moses offers a crucial new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds up the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process.
           
Central to Moses’s analysis is the argument that we need to understand disagreements about affirmative action as inherently moral, products of conflicts between deeply held beliefs that shape differing opinions on what justice requires of education policy. As she shows, differing opinions on affirmative action result from different conceptual values, for instance, between being treated equally and being treated as an equal or between seeing race-consciousness as a pernicious political force or as a necessary variable in political equality. As Moses shows, although moral disagreements about race-conscious policies and similar issues are often seen as symptoms of dysfunctional politics, they in fact create rich opportunities for discussions about diversity that nourish democratic thought and life. 

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Contents

Acknowledgments

One. “Who Isn’t for Equality?”

Two. The Case of Affirmative Action Policy

Three. The Nature of Moral Disagreement: Conflicting Ideals?

Four. Ballot Initiatives, Moral Disagreement, and Ideas of Equality

Five. Deliberative Democracy and Policy Dialogue (with Lauren P. Saenz and Amy Farley Lobue)

Six. What Should We Do about Profound Moral Disagreements over Education Policy?

Appendix A. Pre- Questionnaire

Appendix B. Post-Questionnaire

Appendix C. Post-Post-Questionnaire

Appendix D. Follow-Up Interview Protocol

Notes

References

Index

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