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  • Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 370.11/5
    Title/Author: Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education/ edited by Melanie Walker and Elaine Unterhalter.
    other author: Unterhalter, Elaine.
    Published: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    Description: xv, 275 p. : : ill.
    Subject: Educational sociology.
    Subject: Education - Economic aspects.
    Subject: Learning ability.
    Subject: Social justice.
    ISBN: 9780230604810
    ISBN: 0230604811
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education / Melanie Walker and Elaine Unterhalter -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives onthe Capability Approach and Education -- The Capability to be Educated/ Lorella Terzi -- Situating Education in the Human Capabilities Approach / Pedro Flores-Crespo -- Distribution of What for Social Justice inEducation? The Case of Education for All by2015 / Elaine Unterhalter and Harry Brighouse -- Gender Equality, Education and the Capability Approach / Elaine Unterhalter -- Measuring Capabilities: an example from Girl's Schooling / Rosie Vaughan-- Part II: Applications of the Capability Approach in Education -- Developing Capabilities and theManagement of Trust / Richard Bates -- Education and Capabilities in Bangladesh / Janet Raynor -- Selecting Capabilities for Gender Equality in Education / Melanie Walker -- The Capability Approach andWomen's Economic Security: Access to Higher Education Under Welfare Reform / Luisa Deprez and Sandra Butler -- Part III: Taking the Capability Approach Forward inEducation -- Education, Agency andSocial Justice / Elaine Unterhalterand Melanie Walker -- Conclusion: Capabilities, Social Justice andEducation.
    [NT 15000229]: 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 consideringthe potential of the approachfor 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.
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