Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
- Chapter Seven Unschooled Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Eight Discourse and Social Justice
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Articulacy
- Re-Orientations
- Concluding Remarks
- Envoi
- Endnotes
Chapter Seven - Unschooled Children
from Part IV - Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
- Chapter Seven Unschooled Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Eight Discourse and Social Justice
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Articulacy
- Re-Orientations
- Concluding Remarks
- Envoi
- Endnotes
Summary
“(…) a school system that does not know how to efface at least the major differences that arise from different situations into which students have been born is not an efficient system. This debatable political choice, doubled by a dangerous social choice, is certainly not a viable economic choice.”
M. Baumard 2010Jürgen Habermas inaugurated the new year of 2011 by reviewing in some critical detail agitated discussion in Germany since the previous summer of integration, multi-culturalism, and the culture of reference (Leitkultur). He also called fresh attention to a fundamental requirement of democracy in Europe today. “What we need in Europe today,” he wrote, “is a revitalized political class that overcomes its own defeatism with a little more perspective, resolution, and spirit of cooperation. Democracy,” he continued, “depends on a people's capacity to believe that a certain margin of opportunity exists that allows us to fashion a future and to confront its challenges.”
This margin of opportunity includes the chance to think second thoughts about just what is the character of the basic ethical values that must constitute the foundations of an eventually harmonized EU social policy, including the urgent problem of how to eradicate persisting child destitution. And it also includes the idea of seizing the present EU moment of very great crisis to help renew a more efficacious understanding of the nature of social justice today.
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- Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU, pp. 117 - 131Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012