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Book Synopsis - What does higher education learning and teaching enable students to do and to become?
- Which human capabilities are valued in higher education, and how do we identify them?
- How might the human capability approach lead to improved student learning, as well as to accomplished and ethical university teaching?
This book sets out to generate new ways of reflecting ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency, learning, public values and democratic life, and the pedagogies which support these. It offers an alternative to human capital theory and emphasises the intrinsic as well as the economic value of higher learning. Based upon the human capability approach, developed by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, the book shows the importance of justice as a value in higher education. It places freedom, human flourishing, and studentsâ educational development at its centre. Furthermore, it tak
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I: Context
1. Framing the context of Higher Education
Part II: The capability approach and higher education
2. Core ideas from the capability approach
3. What are we distributing?
Part III: Pedagogies and capabilities
4. Learning and capabilities
5. Widening participation capabilities
6. Capabilities for a Higher Education list
Part IV: Change in higher education
7. Pedagogy, capabilities and a criterion of justice
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