Beschreibung

The Capability Approach founded by Armatya Sen and Martha Nussbaum offers a justicebased analytical framework for human development. The contributions to the present volume show how the Capability Approach can be applied productively in empirical analyses of the life situations of young people and the educationalinstitutions they attend in different parts of the world including Serbia, Kosovo, Kenya, India, Greece, and Germany.

Moreover, the volume helps to extend the Capability Approach by relating it to different theoretical and methodological approaches such as the capability concept of Paul Ricoeur, critical materialism, critical discourse analysis, and biographical research. Thus, the volume delivers comprehensive insights into the social (in) justices to be found not only on the level of individual life paths but also in institutions and in educational policy while showing innovative ways of applying the Capability Approach in the social sciences.

From the Contents:

• Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis and Capability Approach to education policy analysis
• The Environment in the Capabilities Approach: Why its constitutive role for social justice matters
• Disadvantage and capability deprivation in context of youth unemployment

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Editors:

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Uwe Otto, Director of the Center for Capabilities and Educational Research

Dr. Sabine Schäfer, Research Fellow, Research School Education and Capabilities
both: Bielefeld University, Germany

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Target groups: Students and practitioners in educational studies, social work, development studies

Keywords: Capability Approach, educational research, Amartya Sen

Subject area:  Education Studies, Social Work, Development Studies