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Education, welfare and the capabilities approach : a European perspective /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Otto, Hans-Uwe, Ziegler, Holger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Opladen ; Farmington Hills, MI : Barbara Budrich, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Education, Welfare and the Capabilities. Approach A European Perspective; Contents; Introduction; Introduction
  • Capability Perspectives on Education and Welfare; Part I The Capabilities Approach
  • A Philosophical Challenge; Why Martha Nussbaum Should Become a Foucauldian; Aristotelianism versus Political Liberalism: tensions in Nussbaum's thought between the good and the right; Nietzsche and Foucault to the rescue: establishing life as a good; Part II Capability Perspectives on Inequality and Welfare; Capability Deprivation and Capability Enlargement: Rethinking the Role of Welfare.
  • BackgroundCapabilities, youth poverty and young adults; Capabilities and entitlements; Universalizability and concretization of capabilities; Research question and methods; Processes of capability deprivation and capability enlargement; Conclusion: Rethink welfare
  • a capability perspective; Making them Employable or Capable? Social Integration Policies at a Crossroads; The capability approach and social integration policies; Employability policies against the yardstick of the capability approach; Conclusion; Class, Agency and Capability; Social Structure and Agency in Social Theory.
  • The Experience of AgencyAgency and Capability; Social Inequality in Agency and Capability; Part III Capability Perspectives on Children and Growing Up; Children, Education and the Capability Approach; Introduction; The Capability Approach; Education, capacities, and capabilities; Childhood: Means versus End; Promoting Capabilities and Functionings in Childhood; Growing up as a Process; Equality of Opportunities or Capabilities?; Policy issues for education; Conclusion; What do Children Know about their Future: Do Children's Expectations Predict Outcomes in Adult Life; Introduction.
  • Why should children's expectations have any predictive power?Hypotheses; Data and measurements; Basic relationships and selection effects; Multivariate analyses; What is wrong with "much better"; Conclusions; Doing Ethnicity and Growing Up; Part IV Capability Perspectives on Education and Social Justice; Education and Capabilities from a Historical Point of View; Introduction; Family studies in the 1930s; History and Capability; Capabilities and Social Justice in Education; Human capabilities and a just education; Fundamental elements of a just education; Conclusion.
  • The Capability Approach from the Perspective of Educational Psychology and Vice Versa: Related Issues and ChallengesDesiderata and Limitations of Educational Psychology from the CA Perspective; 2. Self-Determination Theory: A Framework suitable for the Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Agency and Well-Being; Conclusion and Outlook; The Capability Approach as an Alternative Framework for Higher Education Goals
  • Conceptual Reflections and Practical Proposals for Building Democratic Citizenship at University; Introduction; Capabilities and competences in tertiary education.