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9781403975041

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

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  • ISBN13:

    9781403975041

  • ISBN10:

    1403975043

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen's, capability approach, and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The capability approachhas attracted attention across disciplinary boundaries in recent years contributing to debates in economics, political philosophy, health and social policy. This book complements these discussions by considering the potential of the approach for work in education, showing how the capability approach challenges some of the key assumptions of human capital theory and how it can provide substance for policy and practice in education concerned with social justice. The book looksparticularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education.Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.

Author Biography

Melanie Walker is Professor of Higher Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham and Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Elaine Unterhalter is Reader in Education and International Development

Table of Contents

The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education
Theoretical Perspectives on the Capability Approach and Education
Education as a Basic Capability
Situating Education in the Human Capabilities Approach
Developing Capabilities and the Management of Trust
Distribution of What for Achieving Equality in Education? The Case of Education for All
Needs, Rights and Capabilities
Applications of the Capability Approach in Education
Freedom through Education: Measuring Capabilities in Girls' Schooling
Education and Capabilities in Bangladesh
South African Girls' Lives and Capabilities
Children's Valued Capabilities
Higher Education and Well Being
Taking the Capability Approach Forward in Education
Education, Agency and Social Justice
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