Amartya Sen's Capability Approach And Social Justice In Education
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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 approach has 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 looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education.Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.
The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education--Melanie Walker and Elaine Unterhalter • Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Capability Approach and Education * Education as a Basic Capability--Lorella Terzi • Situating Education in the Human Capabilities Approach--Pedro Flores-Crespo * Developing Capabilities and the Management of Trust--Richard Bates • Distribution of What for Achieving Equality in Education? The Case of Education for All--Elaine Unterhalter and Harry Brighouse • Needs, Rights and Capabilities--Elaine Unterhalter • Part II: Applications of the Capability Approach in Education * Freedom through Education: Measuring Capabilities in Girls' Schooling--Rosie Vaughan • Education and Capabilities in Bangladesh--Janet Raynor • South African Girls' Lives and Capabilities--Melanie Walker • Children's Valued Capabilities--Mario Biggeri • Higher Education and Well Being--Luisa Deprez and Sandra Butler • Part III: Taking the Capability Approach Forward in Education * Education, Agency and Social Justice-- Elaine Unterhalter and Melanie Walker
