Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

1. The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education
Melanie Walker, Elaine Unterhalter

Part I. Theoretical Perspectives on the Capability Approach and Education

2. The Capability to Be Educated
Lorella Terzi

3. Situating Education in the Human Capabilities Approach
Pedro Flores-Crespo

4. Distribution of What for Social Justice in Education? The Case of Education for All by 2015
Elaine Unterhalter, Harry Brighouse

5. Gender Equality, Education, and the Capability Approach
Elaine Unterhalter

6. Measuring Capabilities: An Example from Girls’ Schooling
Rosie Vaughan

Part II. Applications of the Capability Approach in Education

7. Developing Capabilities and the Management of Trust
Richard Bates

8. Education and Capabilities in Bangladesh
Janet Raynor

9. Selecting Capabilities for Gender Equality in Education
Melanie Walker

10. Children’s Valued Capabilities
Mario Biggeri

11. The Capability Approach and Women’s Economic Security: Access to Higher Education under Welfare Reform
Luisa S. Deprez, Sandra S. Butler

Part III. Taking the Capability Approach Forward in Education

12. Conclusion: Capabilities, Social Justice, and Education
Elaine Unterhalter, Melanie Walker

Keywords: Social Sciences, Education Policy, Educational Philosophy, Organic Chemistry, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics