1st Edition

Talents and Distributive Justice

Edited By Mitja Sardoč Copyright 2023
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

For much of its history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has ultimately radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Besides its inextricable link with equality of educational opportunity, the... Read more

1. Introduction 
Mitja Sardoč 
2. Talents and distributive justice: some tensions 
Mitja Sardoč and Tomaž Deželan 
3. Two conceptions of talent 
Jaime Ahlberg 
4. Against selection: Educational justice and the ascription of talent 
Johannes Giesinger 
5. Talents, abilities and educational justice 
Kirsten Meyer 
6. Earning rent with your talent: Modern-day inequality rests on the power to define, transfer and institutionalize talent 
Jonathan J. B. Mijs 
7. The belief in innate talent and its implications for distributive justice 
Mark C. Vopat 
8. A limited defense of talent as a criterion for access to educational opportunities 
Winston C. Thompson 
9. China’s making and governing of educational subjects as ‘talent’: A dialogue with Michel Foucault 
Weili Zhao 
10. Talents and distributive justice: An interview with Hillel Steiner 
Mitja Sardoč 

Biography

Mitja Sardoč is Senior Research Associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia). He is author of scholarly articles and editor of a number of journal special issues on citizenship education, multiculturalism, toleration, equality of opportunity, patriotism, radicalisation and violent extremism. He is Managing Editor of Theory and Research in Education, Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Patriotism and The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration.