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

Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World

This book examines the idea that the defining feature of academic professional identity is the search for understanding. The editors and contributors foster and contribute to a debate around reviving the civic function and democratic values of public institutions serving the public good. The book shows how questions of teaching, research, and management in universities are also questions about the struggle over deliberative democracy. It demonstrates how higher education can contribute to building a society that is prosperous and secure, compassionate, tolerant, and able to value and appreciate diversity.

Education & Teaching

Nixon, Jon

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

This book sets out to generate new ways of reflecting ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency, learning, public values and democratic life, and the pedagogies which support these. It offers an alternative to human capital theory and the emphasis on the economic returns of education in higher education, arguing for intrinsic as much as instrumental goods. It frames these issues using key ideas from the human capability approach, developed by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, as a rich resource for thinking about higher education and shows how this moves us to a criterion of justice as a value in higher education. It places human flourishing, human dignity and students as human beings at its centre. It takes up the value Sen attributes to education in the capability approach, and puts the approach demonstrates its relevance for higher education.

Higher Education Pedagogies (SRHE and Open University Press Impret)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Higher Education Pedagogies

· What is the current state of higher education internationally? 
 · How may we construct an alternative vision for higher education?
 · What might such an alternative look like?
 Within the knowledge economy, higher education has expanded and changed through policies and practices of audit, performativity and ‘market’ values. In the face of such shifts, Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World contributes to a timely and important debate around the civic function and democratic values of universities. 
 The book is divided into three parts:
 · ‘Dark Times’ critiques the effects of contemporary higher education on professional life, research and curricula. 
 · ‘Languages of Reconstruction’ explores alternative conceptualisations of what universities and higher learning are for, reaffirming difference, deliberative dialogue and the intrinsic goods of learning. The book argues that different languages enable different ways of thinking about university life. 
 · ‘Pointing to Hope’ builds upon the foundations of the previous section to demonstrate how practices in pedagogy, new technologies, management, research and scholarship can be developed.
 This book offers a compelling and workable new vision for higher education. It is unique in bringing together critique with alternative ways of thinking about and doing higher education, providing theoretical and empirical grounding and focusing on international issues. With its international authorship, it provides insight for anyone interested in debates about the directions of higher education, including students, researchers, higher education managers and policy makers.

Higher & Continuing Education

This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good professional capabilities that will translate successfully into contributions to human development. It challenges universities to produce professionals who have the knowledge, skills and values to improve the lives of people living in poverty in urban and rural settings. It covers issues such as: <ul><ul>
<li>Conceptualising Public-Good Professionalism</li> <li>Global Issues and Professional Education </li> <li>South African Debates about Higher Education </li> <li>Institutional conditions and professional education arrangements</li> <li>Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals </li> </ul></ul> By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing public-good professional capabilities in five professions, this book produces a crucial new framework for the preparation of professionals relevant to the global study of higher education policy. It expands higher education’s contribution to global social justice beyond a concern with human capital, administering a challenge to higher education internationally to address human development in the 21st century. This book will be of great interest to all scholars of higher education involved in higher education studies, comparative education, and development studies. It will also prove valuable to policy makers, higher education leaders and lecturers and graduate professionals in diverse organizations.

Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good: The role of universities in promoting human development (Education, Poverty and International Development)

McLean, Monica

Reference

Routledge

Universities and Global Human Development: Theoretical and empirical insights for social change (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)

This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on human development and the capability approach, one which can gain a hearing from policy, scholarship, and practitioners dealing with practical issues of understanding policy, democratising research and knowledge, and fostering student learning - all key university functions. The book argues that such an approach can elucidate development debates drawing on local, national and international issues and examples to show why higher education matters for sustainable development goals both in educational and social terms. It advocates a new arena of engagement with universities as key sites of development and freedoms beyond human capital and challenges development omissions and gaps around university education. The book explores how the human development approach addresses the following core ideas: the meaning of well-being, the idea of agency, participation and democratic citizenship, how to address inequalities, the relation between local and global, and the idea of equitable partnerships. This book is addressed to researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, university education, the capability approach and human development community.

Boni, Alejandra

The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion

THOMSON, PAT

Taylor&Francis

The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability research and to capabilities and education research. The book moves beyond the simplistic conception of alleged 'gaps' in graduate skills and 'mismatches' between employers and universities, and instead provides an innovative multi-dimensional and intersectional human capabilities conceptualisation of graduate employability. The book challenges an individualised notion of employability, instead locating employability issues in social and economic conditions, and argues that employability choices cannot be divorced from inequality. Qualitative and quantitative data from multiple case-study universities in South Africa are used to explore the perceptions and experiences of diverse students, lecturers, support officers and employers, regarding what each university is doing, or should be doing, to enhance graduate economic opportunities and contribute to inclusive development. The book will be highly relevant to students, scholars and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in graduate employability.

Universities, Employability and Human Development

Business & Money

Fongwa, Samuel

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