This volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people's freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The book's contributions analyze what social institutions may provide - in particular, in the field of education and welfare - in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people. Contents include: Welfare - Connecting 'Human' and 'Social Discourses: The Human Development, Human Security, and Social Quality Approaches * Implications for a Capability-Based Social Policy: A European Perspective * The Local Dimension in Labor Market Policies: Promoting Autonomy or Enforcing Compliance? * Enabling Local Actors in Labor market Policy in Germany: Lessons from a Case Study on the Reintegration of Disadvantaged Youth * Governmental Poverty and Wealth Reporting Based on the Capability Approach; Education - Subjectivity, Education and Capabilities: Education as an Essential Dimension of Welfare Politics Which Are Aimed at Enhancing Capabilities * Constrained Opportunities and Principles of Justice in Action: The Role of School Actors in Helping Technical Students Finding a Work Experience * Hidden Privatization and Its Impacts on Public Education * Nussbaum's Capabilities, Gender Justice and Education Transformations
Pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Barbara Budrich
Release
January 29, 2013
ISBN
3847400770
ISBN 13
9783847400776
Enhancing Capabilities: The Role of Social Institutions
This volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people's freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The book's contributions analyze what social institutions may provide - in particular, in the field of education and welfare - in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people. Contents include: Welfare - Connecting 'Human' and 'Social Discourses: The Human Development, Human Security, and Social Quality Approaches * Implications for a Capability-Based Social Policy: A European Perspective * The Local Dimension in Labor Market Policies: Promoting Autonomy or Enforcing Compliance? * Enabling Local Actors in Labor market Policy in Germany: Lessons from a Case Study on the Reintegration of Disadvantaged Youth * Governmental Poverty and Wealth Reporting Based on the Capability Approach; Education - Subjectivity, Education and Capabilities: Education as an Essential Dimension of Welfare Politics Which Are Aimed at Enhancing Capabilities * Constrained Opportunities and Principles of Justice in Action: The Role of School Actors in Helping Technical Students Finding a Work Experience * Hidden Privatization and Its Impacts on Public Education * Nussbaum's Capabilities, Gender Justice and Education Transformations