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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"The capability approach"”.
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Transnational Migration -Development Nexus and the Capability Approach: Reframing the Linkages
This study is organized around four chapters. The first chapter introduces the research questions, methodology and data. The second chapter examines the explanatory inadequacies of received theories. The third chapter develops a framework for applying the capability approach in …
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Exploring the importance of financial literacy within the Capability Approach framework
This dissertation aims to address the importance of financial literacy within the capability approach framework in the context of microfinance institutions’ clients in Indonesia, by raising four main issues. The first touches on financial capability and specifically focuses on its …
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Chinese private education reform through the lens of the capability approach
This thesis seeks to understand how private education reform in China was interpreted and implemented at the school level. Using the capability approach as a conceptual framework, this research first argues that Chinese private education reform policies can be conceived of as capability-enhancing …
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Understanding drivers of deforestation using socio‐psychological behavioural theory and the capability approach
There is continuing concern about the rapid loss of forests globally, as the loss of terrestrial carbon stocks has significant implications for our ability to curb the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding drivers of deforestation is essential for developing any successful …
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GOVERNING SHARING PLATFORMS COOPERATIVELY: ESSAYS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH
Il presente elaborato intende contribuire, sotto forma di una collezione di quattro articoli tematici, ad una delle principali questioni che caratterizzano l’attuale discorso sulla sostenibilità: come porre rimedio agli aspetti più negativi del cosiddetto “capitalismo di piattaforma” al fine di …
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Catholic Social Teaching and The Capability Approach to Human Development: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Proposal
This aim of this dissertation is to present the argument that Catholic Social Teaching's focus on integral human flourishing can offer theoretical input to the field of Human Development as well as practical contributions to social and political initiatives currently underway. The most powerful …
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Who will guard the guardians themselves? : contributions of the capability approach to capacity development evaluation frameworks
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-118)
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The Relationship between quality of life, education, and poverty & inequality in South Africa: the capability approach as an alternative analytical framework
In this thesis I present � from the perspective of the capability approach and within the context of South Africa � a conceptual analysis of the relationship between quality of life, education, poverty and inequality. The role of education within the South African context is of particular …
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Human agency and capability: a bottom-up perspective from North Central Nigeria
… engages an academic discourse around the Capability Approach, and how human agency and functioning is understood in North Central Nigeria. The goal is to contribute a top-down theoretical and bottom-up communitarian human development model that is complementary, and that understands …
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Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice
The capability approach to justice, made popular by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, has been a stalwart of the human development literature for the last 30 years, and its core ideals underwrite the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation offers a new version of the …
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A capability analysis of education policies in quintile 1 schools in the Frances Baard district of the Northern Cape Province
This study examined the three education poverty alleviation policies in relation to learners’ capabilities and was grounded in the Capability Approach as a conceptual framework pioneered by the economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen. The study posits the view that the policies investigated and …
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Aspirations and capabilities: the design and analysis of an action research project in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
The central theme of the study is whether deliberate actions to realise aspirations can and would be likely to increase capabilities amongst the poor, and whether such attempts might reduce poverty. Capabilities are seen here as real opportunity sets which people can use to achieve what they want …
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Human development, capabilities and university-industry partnerships: A case study of the Institute for Postharvest Loss
… research captures a strong tension between the profit-driven imperatives of industry, “third mission,” and the traditional teaching and research missions of the academy (Etzkowitz, 1998; Slaughter & Leslie, 1997; Slaughter, Slaughter, & Rhoades, 2004; Washburn, 2005). While the number of …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
This study examines an important dimension of the global challenge to achieve Education for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the …
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An investigation into the contribution of e-learning to the improvement of higher education opportunities for women in Saudi Arabia
… learning (e-learning) has recently introduced by the Saudi government to expand educational opportunities at higher education level, especially for women. However, due to the status of women in Saudi society, understanding the ability of women to take advantage of such technology rather than just …
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Health and justice: the capability to be healthy.
… argument for a moral entitlement to a capability to be healthy. Motivated by the goal to make a human right to health intelligible and justifiable, the thesis extends the capability approach, advocated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, to the theory and practice of the human health …
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Injustice and discrimination through assimilationist policies and education against Native American students: a capability approach
The European colonisation of the United States of America and the domination of its Native Nations has led to profound social problems that continue to impact Indigenous communities and which have resulted in lower educational opportunities and outcomes for Indigenous students in comparison to …
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Measuring capabilities an empirical investigation of the sen-nussbaum approach to well-being
This thesis argues for the view that Amartya Sen's capabilities approach is a preferable approach to the measurement of welfare by addressing three questions:<br></br><br></br> can the capability approach be operationalised?<br></br> what is the relationship between capabilities and satisfaction …
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A retrospective review of educational interventions and innovations using actor network theory. Creating learning designs that develop human capabilities by purposeful assembly of heterogenous actors
This thesis contributes an approach to learning design for education professionals which can be applied to reform or transform practice through a process of iterative development. The approach can be used by teachers with their class, in a subject area, by a whole institution or system wide, and by …
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Insourcing a government information system: a case study from Malaysia.
Insourcing, outsourcing and co-sourcing are three approaches to procuring an information system. This research contributes to the body of knowledge on insourcing an information system; exploring and discussing the enabling and inhibiting factors of the insourcing of an information system in …
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