The capability approach and inequality in higher education

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Talita M. L. Calitz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
The Capability Approach

A Case of Capability Expansion or Capability Reduction? An Exploration of Loan Recipients’ Views of ICETEX: Colombia’s Higher Education Student Loans Institute

2020 ◽  
pp. 153819272092007
Author(s):  
Lee Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Conversion Factors ◽  
The Capability Approach

A government-established student loans institute known as Instituto Colombiano de Credito Educativo y Estudios Tecnicos en el Exterior (ICETEX) has been instrumental in improving access to higher education in Colombia. This article uses the capability approach to analyze the ways in which ICETEX has contributed to loan recipients’ well-being and identify which capabilities loan recipients have reason to value. Evidence from qualitative interviews with eight participants reveals that, due to an intersecting set of conversion factors and capabilities, ICETEX both enables and constrains participants’ capabilities.

scholarly journals Comparative Study on Capacity Building for Academic Staff in Internationalisation of Higher Education in Vietnam and Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diep Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Active Individual ◽  
The Capability Approach

Academics are seen as primary agents in the enactment of higher education internationalisation. However, the achievements of internationalisation are claimed to be constrained by the lack of academics’ involvement and expertise. This research, therefore, compares the policies and practices of capacity building for academics in internationalisation between Australian and Vietnamese universities. More specifically, this research seeks to unpack ideologies and understandings of internationalisation, institutional arrangements of capacity building for academics in internationalisation, and academics’ individual agency in engaging and building their capacity for internationalisation. Using the Capability Approach as a theoretical framework (Sen, 1992, 1999), the research argues that academics’ participation in internationalisation is determined by social and institutional conditions, combined with their individual aspirations and active roles in creating internationalisation and professional development opportunities. This suggests the significance of an enabling structure and active individual agency in expanding academics’ capabilities for successful participation in internationalisation.

scholarly journals Conceptualising (dis)advantage in South African higher education: A capability approach perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Gore ◽  
◽  
Melanie Walker ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South African ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Related Individual ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education ◽  
The Capability Approach

Higher education policy in South Africa uses the concept of ‘historically disadvantaged’ to address inequities and inequalities. Disadvantage specifically refers to black students who are marginalised in higher education due to structural factors associated with the apartheid legacy of segregation. In this paper, drawing from the capability approach, the authors argue that (dis)advantage can be better understood in terms of students’ capabilities, functionings, and agency, which go beyond race to address other forms of oppression like class, gender and related individual factors. Students with a wider capability set and agency to convert resources into capabilities and functionings are deemed advantaged in comparison with those who have a narrower capability set and lack agency. Based on theory and empirical findings, this paper offers a complex, multidimensional and nuanced conceptualisation of (dis)advantage to understand practical interventions in higher education. The findings show that foregrounding race in addressing disadvantage is limiting and policy should therefore provide opportunities to all students for them to succeed.

Competenza ad agire insieme e senso di iniziativa: il tirocinio per attraversare i confini tra studio e lavoro

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Fabrizio d'Aniello
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Knowledge Models ◽  
Internship Experience ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Capability Approach

The pre-eminent motivation behind this contribution lies in the intention to offer students of three-year degree course in education and training sciences and master's degree in pedagogical sciences of the University of Macerata a further support than those already existing, aimed at expanding the educational meaningfulness of the internship experience. The main criticality of such experience is connected with the difficulty in translating knowledge, models, ideas into appropriate activities. This notably refers to the conceptual and educational core of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and, consistently, to the skill to act. Therefore, after a deepening of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, followed by related pedagogical reflections based on the capability approach, the paper presents an operative proposal aimed at increasing young people's possibilities of action and supporting their personal and professional growth. With regard to this training proposal, the theoretical and methodological framework refers to the third generation cultural historical activity theory and to the tool of the boundary crossing laboratory, variant of the change laboratory

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