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.
Author(s): Melanie Walker, Elaine Unterhalter
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 296
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
1 The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education......Page 18
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Capability Approach and Education......Page 36
Editors’ Introduction......Page 38
2 The Capability to Be Educated......Page 42
3 Situating Education in the Human Capabilities Approach......Page 62
4 Distribution of What for Social Justice in Education? The Case of Education for All by 2015......Page 84
5 Gender Equality, Education, and the Capability Approach......Page 104
6 Measuring Capabilities: An Example from Girls’ Schooling......Page 126
Part II: Applications of the Capability Approach in Education......Page 148
Editors’ Introduction......Page 150
7 Developing Capabilities and the Management of Trust......Page 154
8 Education and Capabilities in Bangladesh......Page 174
9 Selecting Capabilities for Gender Equality in Education......Page 194
10 Children’s Valued Capabilities......Page 214
11 The Capability Approach and Women’s Economic Security: Access to Higher Education under Welfare Reform......Page 232
Part III: Taking the Capability Approach Forward in Education......Page 254
12 Conclusion: Capabilities, Social Justice, and Education......Page 256
Bibliography......Page 272
B......Page 282
C......Page 283
E......Page 284
F......Page 285
H......Page 286
L......Page 287
O......Page 288
R......Page 289
S......Page 290
U......Page 291
Z......Page 292
