The tyranny of meritocracy and elite higher education

IF 1.3 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Harry Brighouse
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Abstract

In The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel argues that the American society is not meritocratic, that belief that it is causes various social harms, and that some of those harms –in particular, the costs to social solidarity – would be caused even if society actually were meritocratic. He also explores the way that the structure of higher education is implicated in the ‘ethos’ of meritocracy. This article explores just how the ethos of meritocracy might undermine solidarity, argues that the structural changes needed to achieve actual meritocracy would be benign, even though meritocracy itself is not very valuable, and identifies ways in which changes to the structure of public funding for higher education may inadvertently have undermined solidarity.
精英统治和精英高等教育的暴政
在《功绩的暴政》一书中,迈克尔·桑德尔认为,美国社会并不是精英统治的社会,这种信念会造成各种社会危害,而其中一些危害——特别是社会团结的成本——即使社会实际上是精英统治的,也会造成。他还探讨了高等教育的结构与精英政治的“风气”之间的关系。这篇文章探讨了精英管理的风气是如何破坏团结的,认为实现真正的精英管理所需的结构变化是良性的,尽管精英管理本身并不是很有价值,并指出了高等教育公共资金结构的变化可能在无意中破坏了团结。
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Theory and Research in Education
Theory and Research in Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Theory and Research in Education, formerly known as The School Field, is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and conjectural papers contributing to the development of educational theory, policy and practice.
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