ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 articulates a conception of global educational justice that determines the rights to education to which citizens of all states are entitled, and for the realization of which all states and other relevant international actors are responsible. This chapter develops this conception of global educational justice by way of critically analyzing the currently two most dominant conceptions of educational justice – the conception of equal educational opportunity and the conception of democratic educational adequacy. The critical analysis of these conceptions reveals that a democratically adequate education is of greater importance than equal educational opportunity, because the particular demands of equal educational opportunity should be determined through deliberative democratic rather than philosophical reasoning. Unlike most contemporary theorists of educational justice, however, this chapter argues that the scope of validity of educational justice is global and not merely domestic. Thus the right to a democratically adequate education must be recognized by and within all states as well as by further international actors such as educational international organizations.
