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Closing the Capabilities Gap : Renegotiating social justice for the young / Ortrud Leßmann, Hans-Uwe Otto, Holger Ziegler
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capabilities Approach.
- Social Policy.
- Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Capabilities Approach.
- Social Policy.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 2011
- Biography/History:
- Dr. Ortrud Leßmann, Assistant lecturer, University of Hamburg, Germany Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.mult. Hans-Uwe Otto, Senior Research Professor, University of Bielefeld, Germany Prof. Dr. Holger Ziegler, Professor for Social Work, University of Bielefeld, Germany
- Summary:
- The volume relates the Capabilities Approach to research and practice in education, welfare economics and social policy. Thus, it challenges traditional objectives and approaches in these fields. The authors suggest a capabilities perspective that calls into question the metric of success of these disciplines and in the fields of politics. It moves the attention away from economic growth and human capital towards autonomy and “agency freedom” of (young) individuals. Especially with respect to the young this implies a substantial shift of perspectives. Young persons have been particularly highlighted in the political debate: on the one hand side they are one of the groups with the highest risk to face situations of poverty, on the other hand side young persons are the main focus group of educational strategies in the form of investments in human capital which dominate the discourse. In this context, the capability perspective implies a provoking shift of paradigms because it takes place against the background of capitalist societies redefining their notion of “the public” and diminishing the collective responsibility for the vulnerable. The volume discusses whether and in how far the capabilities perspective makes a difference and provides additional value in terms of promoting democracy and justice on a social level as well as well-being on the level of individual (particularly young) individuals.
- Contents:
- Closing the capability gap and renewing social criticism / Ostrud Lessmann, Hans-Uwe Otto & Holger Ziegler
- From social citizenship to social capability in an enlarged economic Europe / Robert Salais
- The capability approach : a sufficient foundation for welfare reform? / Hartley Dean
- Thinking in a capability language / René Bütner
- Measuring the extension of capability sets / Wulf Gaertner
- Human autonomy and development effectiveness : introducing a people-centred framework for project assessment / Mirtha R. Muñiz Castillo
- Preparing young people for eudaimonia : moving capabilities across generations / John Cameron
- Capabilities : from a relationist viewpoint / Heinrich W. Schäfer
- Dynamic capabilities : a capability approach to life courses and the case of young adults / Peter Bartelheimer, René Bütner & Tanja Schmidt
- Children's autonomy, education and capabilities / Jérôme Ballet, Mario Biggeri & Flavio Comim
- Early childhood, agency and capability deprivation : a quantitative analysis using German socio-economic panel data / JürgenVolkert & Kirsten Wüst
- Symbolic capital and the capability gap / Michael Watts
- A capability approach fit for children / Iris Sadlowski
- Social class, socialization and capabilites in a modern welfare state : results from the Iceland longitudinal study / Matthias Grundmann, Annekatrin Steinhoff & Wolfgang Edelstein
- From inequality to anomie : and inequality revisited by use of CA / Niels Rosendal Jensen
- Appproaching capablities with children in care : an international project to identify values of children and young people in care / Gunter Graf, Oscar Germes-Castro & Bernhard Babic
- Beyond futurority : a capabilities perspective on childhood and youth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-86649-689-3
- Publisher Number:
- 9783866496897
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