Meritocracy is a rationality that has significantly shaped the lives of people in modern societies, and today we all more or less believe those who are smart, capable hardworking will succeed life. This seems to be rule applies areas public In Western world, evaluating judging ourselves others based on meritocracy become an imperative rarely question despite problems associated with meritocracy...

This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with...

This paper undertakes a philosophical investigation of the implications of the traditional Yoruba understanding of education for the contemporary African quest for development. The paper argues that the Yoruba conception of education is marked by the underlying philosophical principles of functionalism, moralism and progressivism. These principles, the paper contends, are of great relevance to ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the recruitment of elites in the Western world leads to social cohesion, or to the opposite -social stratification. We show that the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we show that m...

Educational philosophies pertain to teachers’ perceptions, beliefs, and values about teaching learning. They are reference points for instructional effectiveness. In this study, I examined my own case manage a dissatisfying incongruence between educational practices. For purpose, employed self-study methodology with design-based research methods analyzed instances which reflected divergence fro...