Search results for "meritocracy"
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Merit-based exclusion in Finnish music schools
2019
In this article I analyse merit-based exclusion in Finnish music schools for children and young people. I base my study on my earlier research on meritocracy and written data collected online from current and former music school students in the autumn and winter of 2015–2016. I am able to show there are implicit and explicit merit-based hierarchies in the music school. Hierarchies and exclusion are shown to be connected to the institution’s meritocratic features. As the hierarchies are merit-based, it is hard to question them. The hierarchies justify excluding students from certain practices such as performances. These practices are in fact learning opportunities, as has been established by…
08. Recognition and the ideology of merit
2015
This paper discusses pathological forms that the ideal of merit takes in ideological uses of meritocratic ideas. According to the French philosopher Dominique Girardot (2011) the possibility of our genuinely recognizing one another is impaired by the ideology of merit: this new ideology standardizes recognition and forces competition, thus creating hierarchies and what Axel Honneth calls social pathologies. The ideology also threatens the category of action in Hannah Arendt’s (1958) sense. The paper elucidates Girardot’s stance and sketches a comparison between Honneth’s and Girardot’s views on recognition. Despite the explicit connection to Honneth’s theory, Girardot actually creates an Ar…
Unequal Attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries
2014
Western countries have become increasingly diverse in recent decades and these demographic trends are certain to continue. The resulting ethnic diversity is a major challenge to policy-makers, who need to tackle issues of social justice and social integration. Education plays a pivotal role since it is the major stepping stone for the children of immigrants to successful economic integration and also plays a major role in social and political integration more generally since education gives access to the skills, resources and contacts which enable individuals to participate fully in the life of their society. Our central research questions are: Do the descendants of migrants experience equa…
Justicia y legitimidad de la desigualdad tras la crisis financiera
2009
La crisis no sólo ha puesto de manifiesto la desconexión entre economía real y financiera sino también ha permitido cuestionar, aunque tímidamente, el papel legitimador que a menudo corresponde a los atributos meritocráticos (esfuerzo, inteligencia, etc.) en el tipo de desigualdad a la que da lugar el sistema de mercado. Cuestionadas algunas de las bases (morales si se quiere) con las que se pretendía fundado pero también fundante el principio de justicia del capitalismo (la vieja cuestión de la desigualdad económica legítima en relación con la igualdad formal y de derechos en el seno de la ciudadanía, pero también el nuevo problema de los techos salariales, etc.) nos encontramos, querámosl…
Haciendo desigualdad de la diferencia: meritocracia y derecho a la identidad cultural. A propósito de la posición del pueblo gitano
2009
The persistent information on high levels of unemployment and premature abandon of school of roma students (with all the precautions with regard to undue generalizations, cases of full integration etc.) allow that the question of the right to a cultural identity turns out to be current, as well as its repercussion in areas as those of education and employment. This work analyzes the implication of the cultural difference, in the concrete case of the roma, taking into account the kind of economica inequality legitimized according to the meritocratic system wich informs the mentioned areas. It is dealing with a dissatisfaction judgement in human rights terms for the situation of a group wich …
What Makes for Fair Schooling?
2007
Slogans calling for “une ecole juste” (fair schooling) are often as vague as they are effective in mobilising public opinion: though there is apparent agreement on the desirability of greater fairness in education, the matter of defining fair schooling parameters is extremely complex and riddled with ambiguity.
L'inflation scolaire : Les désillusions de la méritocratie
2006
06001 - Il existe une édition japonaise, parue en décembre 2007, avec préface inédite.; « Les études, plus on fait, mieux on se porte ». Voici ce qu'on pourrait lire dans le Dictionnaire des idées reçues contemporaines à l'entrée « Ecole ». Cette conviction partagée est-elle encore pertinente ? On peut en douter. Pour les individus d'abord, dont le mérite ne se trouve pas nécessairement mieux reconnu, ni l'hérédité sociale mieux conjurée, parce qu'ils seront restés plus longtemps sur les bancs de l'école. Pour la société ensuite, car la distribution des places et des emplois ne se fait pas forcément de manière plus pertinente quand elle s'appuie sur les seuls diplômes délivrés par l'école. …
Ukryta polityczność — uzasadnienie merytokratyczne i jego rola w prawotwórstwie
2020
Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza uzasadnienia merytokratycznego w prawotwórstwie w kontekście problematyki polityczności, rozumianej w duchu Chantal Mouffe jako pewien nie-usuwalny stan antagonizmu leżącego u podstaw funkcjonowania każdego społeczeństwa. Ideologia merytokratyczna w zakresie prawotwórstwa opiera się na założeniu, że możliwe jest wyeliminowa-nie polityczności z procesu tworzenia prawa poprzez zastąpienie jej czynnikiem eksperckim. Autor na przykładzie sądowego tworzenia prawa oraz prawotwórstwa niezależnych agencji regulacyjnych w USA wskazuje, że uzasadnienie merytokratyczne: (1) służy legitymizacji przyjmowanych rozwią-zań prawnych, (2) nie eliminuje z niego elementu polit…
Education and the belief in meritocracy
2008
This study aims at measuring empirically the belief in meritocracy and analyzing the impact of education on this belief. The research is structured in three parts: – Measuring the hold and the spread of the idea of an educational meritocracy. – Assessing the perceived legitimacy of educational meritocracy – Analyzing the determinants of the belief in meritocracy, especially the schooling effect. Three different types of empirical materials have been used: (1) data from the International Social Survey Program 1999 (Social Inequality (III)), (2) an original survey conducted among students in different courses of study (first year of higher education) in the academy of Caen, and (3) interviews…
Education, intériorisation de la méritocratie et perception des frontières entre groupes sociaux
2006
La présente recherche (qui s'achèvera en 2007-2008) envisage une manière de tester empiriquement la thèse de la reproduction de Bourdieu et Passeron en explorant la perception de la légitimité des inégalités scolaires et de leurs incidences sociales, chez des individus inégalement formés. Elle entend ainsi explorer les relations entre trajectoire scolaire (niveau atteint, mais aussi filière de formation suivie) et intériorisation de la méritocratie et plus largement le jugement sur les inégalités existantes.