Comparative Analysis of Educational Policy Issue

Comparative Analysis of Educational Policy Issue

Analyze the educational policy issue of providing financial aid to undocumented students. Use the perspective of John Rawls’s Justice as Fairness, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, and Michael Walzer’s Communitarianism. Provide a comparative analysis of this issue through the lens of each theory. Demonstrate how each theory understands the issue and what recommendations follow from the application of each theory. Present an argument for the most compelling understanding and set of recommendations. Which theory of justice provides the most compelling understanding and recommendations regarding the particular policy issue?
REQUIRED TEXTS
Nussbaum, M. C. (2011).Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Rawls, J., & Kelly, E. (2001). Justice as fairness: A restatement. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Sen, A. (2009). The idea of justice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Walzer, M. (1983). Spheres of justice: A defense of pluralism and equality. New York: Basic Books.