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Improving Equality Through Study In The Humanities. A Book Review Of Education And Equality, Jane Blanken-Webb Dec 2017

Improving Equality Through Study In The Humanities. A Book Review Of Education And Equality, Jane Blanken-Webb

Democracy and Education

Danielle Allen’s recent book, Education and Equality, forwards a much-needed perspective for considering the relationship between education and equality in an era in which the value of education seems to be almost unquestionably commensurate with the economic payback it produces in terms of future job earnings. Rather than thinking of education only as a proxy for the transmission of technical know-how and skill that can lead to higher-paying jobs and ultimately improve conditions of economic inequality in our society, Allen took up the intrinsic relationship between education and equality in which the practice of human development, in itself, contributes …


A Review Of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs The Humanities, Laura A. Desisto Oct 2011

A Review Of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs The Humanities, Laura A. Desisto

Democracy and Education

A review of the book Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, by Martha Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 2010).