The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
103 Tiered
Monday, March 25, 2019 - 3:30pm
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Date: 
Monday, March 25, 2019 - 3:30pm to 5:10pm

The Department of Political Science cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on:

The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection

by Adam Swift

Professor of Political Theory/Political Philosophy, University College London

Monday, March 25 / 15:30 / Room: N15 103 Tiered

Abstract: We present a normative framework for the assessment of education policies and apply it to the issue of policies that allow schools to select their students on the basis of religious criteria. Such policies can be justified, and challenged, on many different grounds; public debate is not conducted in terms adequate to the task. Our main theoretical aim is to complement with non-consequentialist considerations those existing approaches that focus on consequentialist ones, and to apply the proposed framework to issues of school composition and selection. We argue, further, that current policies that allow schools to select all their students on the basis of their parents' religious affiliation cannot be justified.