Stanford Humanities Center
Nearly everybody says they are in favor of equity in education. But what are they in favor of when they are in favor of equity? A famous meme using crates, people of different sizes, and a baseball game, contrasts equity, in which everyone gets as many boxes as they need to see the game with equality in which everyone gets the same number of boxes regardless of size. But in the cartoon, equity is really equality of outcome, whereas equality is equality of crates. We explore various plausible ways of understanding equity, and demonstrate that different organizations have different and incompatible understandings of equity, and show why understanding the different ways we conceive of equity matters for decision-making.
Supplemental Reading: Conceptions of Educational Equity (2022)
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Education, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and the Education and the Humanities Workshop.
About the Speaker
Harry Brighouse is the Mildred Fish-Harnack Professor of Philosophy of Education, Professor of Philosophy, Carol Dickson-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
About the Series
Claire and John Radway Research Workshop
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Claire and John Radway, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities
When
Location
Center for Education Research at Stanford (CERAS), Room 101
520 Galvez Mall
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