An Inquiry Into Fairness In Disabled People's Education

Fairness in education is one of the conspicuous issues during thetransformation of our society. Disabled people form a typically socialvulnerable group, and the fairness in their education should beemphasized. It's necessary, in the very reality, to analyze the presentunfairness in disabled people's education, to discuss ethical groundsto promote its fairness, and to propose ethical countermeasures toresolve its unfairness, which finds its theoretical and practicalsignificance in the help of advancing the sound development ofdisabled people's education.Fairness is a behavior that gives a person that which he desertsand doesn't give him that which he doesn't desert. The principle offairness sees its meaning in two dimensions: everybody enjoys basicrights in a complete equality; and everybody enjoys non-basic rightsin a proportional equality. In respect of educational process, fairnessin education includes three aspects: fairness in admission chance, ineducational conditions, and in educational results. So the unfairness indisabled people's education refers to the problems in admissionchance, educational conditions and educational results.The unfairness in disabled people's education in today's Chinahas backgrounded upon the social transformation and thepopularization of higher education. Although disabled people'seducation has made great progress in China, severe are still itsexisting problems among which stand, in the admission chance, thecases that disabled people aren't admitted into schools occursrepeatedly; in the educational conditions, there are still barriersaround disabled people's schooling, and special educators' qualityalso needs to be improved; and in the educational results, theemployment for disabled graduates isn't optimistic. Ethical grounds to promote the fairness of disabled people'seducation find the following ideas: identical with normal people,disabled people should enjoy the same rights to develop as the othersdo among which the right to be educated is most important, thereforedisabled people should be treated fairly in the admission chance;different from normal people, disabled people call for humanism toprovide guaranteed hardwares and softwares for their schooling; nowthat disabled and normal people constitute our society together, in theconstruction of. harmonious China, it's ought to help disabled peoplein their employment and then in the realization of their individualvalue and also social value.A few ethical countermeasures to promote the fairness of thedisabled people's education are put forward: to set up an appropriateattitude to disabled people in the whole society through morepropaganda and instruction; to improve the moral quality of specialeducators; to help disabled people for better employment. But theultimate solution to the unfairness in disabled people's educationlooks forward to the faster and better development of productivity.