A Communitarian Theory of the Education Rights of Students with Disabilities

Autor/in	Dickson, Elizabeth
Titel	A Communitarian Theory of the Education Rights of Students with Disabilities
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44 (2012) 10, S.1093-1109 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00788.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Disabilities; Inclusion; Role of Education; Democracy; Student Rights; Access to Education; Equal Education; Community Schools; Barriers; Moral Values; Values Education; Educational Theories; School Administration; Social Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handicap; Behinderung; Inklusion; Bildungsauftrag; Demokratie; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Community school; ; Gemeindeschule; Gemeinschaftsschule; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Werterziehung; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	There is a lack of writing on the issue of the education rights of people with disabilities by authors of any theoretical persuasion. While the deficiency of theory may be explained by a variety of historical, philosophical and practical considerations, it is a deficiency which must be addressed. Otherwise, any statement of rights rings out as hollow rhetoric unsupported by sound reason and moral rectitude. This paper attempts to address this deficiency in education rights theory by postulating a communitarian theory of the education rights of people with disabilities. The theory is developed from communitarian writings on the role of education in democratic society. The communitarian school, like the community within which it nests, is inclusive. Schools both reflect and model the shape of communitarian society and have primary responsibility for teaching the knowledge and virtues which will allow citizens to belong to and function within society. Communitarians emphasise responsibilities, however, as the corollary of rights and may require the individual good to yield to the community good when the hard cases arise. The article not only explains the basis of the right to an inclusive education, therefore, but also engages with the difficult issue of when such a right may not be enforceable. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10