Indoctrination, Islamic schools and the Broader Scope of Harm
Theory and Research in Education 16 (2):162-178 (2018)
Abstract
Many philosophers argue that religious schools are guilty of indoctrinatory harm. I think they are
right to be worried about that. But in this article, I will postulate that there are other harms for
many individuals that are more severe outside the religious school. Accordingly the full scope of
harm should be taken into account when evaluating the harm that some religious schools may
do. Once we do that, I suggest, justice may require that we choose the lesser harm. To simplify
matters, I focus my attention on the stigmatic harm done to Muslims, and the role that Islamic
schools might be expected to play in mitigating that harm. If the full weight of stigmatic harm
is factored into the ethical analysis concerning Islamic schools, then I suggest that there are
sufficiently weighty pro tanto reasons for Muslim parents to prefer an Islamic school over the
alternatives, notwithstanding the potential indoctrinatory harm.
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