Social Justice, Economics and Distance Education

Autor/in	Rumble, Greville
Titel	Social Justice, Economics and Distance Education
Quelle	In: Open Learning, 22 (2007) 2, S.167-176 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0513
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Access to Education; Educational Needs; Justice; Distance Education; Economic Factors; Computer Uses in Education; Educational Policy; Financial Support; Federal Aid; Government Role; Public Policy; Politics of Education; Educational Technology; Open Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Gerechtigkeit; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Ökonomischer Faktor; Computernutzung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Finanzielle Förderung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Educational policy; Unterrichtsmedien; Offene Erziehung; Offener Unterricht
Abstract	In the 1960s and 1970s distance education was seen as a way of increasing access to education, and hence as something the state should fund. Libertarian thinking has weakened support for the nation-state as a provider of social welfare. This article argues that libertarian policies are "vicious" in their effects. By subscribing to such ideas we are culpable because we could have done something to make "bad lives" better, and we did not. Government funding of distance education should be supported on the grounds that this is the most efficient way of meeting the educational needs of those living "bad lives". (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10