Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. 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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Walker, Melanie

Unterhalter, Elaine

Sociology

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Global Inequalities and Higher Education seeks to examine how universities operate within a context of global inequality. The relationship between the university as an international institution and the process of globalization is an ambivalent one. The expansion of higher education can generate inequalities but can also contribute to the development of new social democratic structures through teaching, research and the development of student and staff dispositions with a potential to promote social justice. This book seeks to examine the promises and tensions by bringing together the themes of inequalities entailed in looking at global higher education through an interdisciplinary perspective. The book offers a picture of inequalities in higher education understood in relation to access, processes of learning and teaching practices and identities. This entails considering inequalities in higher education at the interface of the external (political, social, economic and cultural forces shaping global and national higher education policies) and internal contexts (the teaching and learning process and its actors including institutions, student and staff). The book thus examines the interfaces between the micro and macro environments of universities and identifies changes and continuities with regard to inequality across time and space. Global Inequalities and Higher Education is a compelling exploration of higher education's contribution to widening global inequalities, assessing its potential to contribute to change in the future.

Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose interests are you serving? (Universities into the 21st Century, 17)

Social Sciences

Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.

Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose interests are you serving? (Universities into the 21st Century, 11)

Education & Teaching

Carpentier, Vincent

Higher & Continuing Education

Red Globe Press

Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education

Aikman, Sheila

History

Franklin Classics

Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government Organisations, NGOs and women’s groups since 1990 to combat this injustice. Written by a recognised expert in this field, the book is organised clearly into three parts:  the first provides a background to the history of the provision of schooling for girls worldwide since 1945 and locates the challenges of gender inequality in education  the second examines different views as to why questions of gender and schooling should be addressed globally, contrasting arguments based on human capital theory, rights and capabilities the third analyses how governments, Inter-Government Organisations and NGOs have put policy into practice.   Addressing the urgent global challenges in gender and schooling, this book calls for a new connected approach in policy and practice. It is essential reading for all those interested in education, along with developmental studies, sociology, politics and women’s studies.

Reference

Routledge

Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government Organisations, NGOs and women’s groups since 1990 to combat this injustice. Written by a recognised expert in this field, the book is organised clearly into three parts: <ul>
<li>the first provides a background to the history of the provision of schooling for girls worldwide since 1945 and locates the challenges of gender inequality in education </li> <li>the second examines different views as to why questions of gender and schooling should be addressed globally, contrasting arguments based on human capital theory, rights and capabilities</li> <li>the third analyses how governments, Inter-Government Organisations and NGOs have put policy into practice.</li>
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Addressing the urgent global challenges in gender and schooling, this book calls for a new connected approach in policy and practice. It is essential reading for all those interested in education, along with developmental studies, sociology, politics and women’s studies.

Drawing on case-study research that examined initiatives which engaged with global aspirations to advance gender equality in schooling in Kenya and South Africa, this book looks at how global frameworks on gender, education and poverty are interpreted in local settings and the politics of implementation. It discusses the forms of global agreements in particular contexts, and allows for an appraisal of how they have been understood by the people who implement them.  By using an innovative approach to comparative cross country research, the book illuminates how ideas and actions connect and disconnect around particular meanings of poverty, education and gender in large systems and different settings. Its conclusions will allow assessments of the approach to the post-2015 agenda to be made, taking account of how policy and practice relating to global social justice are negotiated, sometimes negated, the forms in which they are affirmed and the actions that might help enhance them. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, academics, senior teachers, senior government and inter-government officials and senior staff in NGOs working in the field of education and international development, gender, poverty reduction, and social development.

Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality (Education, Poverty and International Development)

North, Amy

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Andesite Press

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. 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.

Philosophy

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose interests are you serving? (Universities into the 21st Century, 17)

Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose interests are you serving? (Universities into the 21st Century, 11)

Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education

Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality (Education, Poverty and International Development)

Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education