ERIC Number: EJ1373277
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Mar
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1477-8785
EISSN: EISSN-1741-3192
The Right to Higher Education and the Gap between Ideal Theory and Non-Ideal Decisions
Brighouse, Harry; Mullane, Kailey
Theory and Research in Education, v21 n1 p77-81 Mar 2023
Christopher Martin argues that an interest in strong autonomy supports a right to debt-free higher education and that making tuition free is the best way of enacting that right. We argue that making higher education tuition free would, in the absence of other countervailing measure, maldistribute strong autonomy, even in ideal conditions. We also argue that even if Martin is right that higher education should be tuition-free in ideal circumstances, it does not follow that in prevailing, non-ideal, conditions higher education should be tuition-free.
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Tuition, Personal Autonomy, Educational Theories, Paying for College, Public Colleges
SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2993
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A