Otto / Walker / Ziegler Capability-Promoting Policies

Enhancing Individual and Social Development
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3433-0
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and systematic strategies for human development policies at the local, national and international level.
International contributors innovatively combine the hitherto unpaired perspectives of the capability approach and the tradition of critical social policy with empirical examples using case studies from South-Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. The result is a call for a new, feasible approach towards more socially balanced, democratic and innovative capability-promoting policy activities, models and programmes that reduce social and human suffering to promote an enhanced social quality of current societies around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otto, Hans-Uwe

Walker, Melanie

Ziegler, Holger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rambla, Xavier

Christrup Kjeldsen, Christian

Felder, Franziska

Bessell, Sharon

Gupta, Anna

Featherstone, Brid

Graziano, Paolo

Seifert, Susan C

Stern, Mark

Mitchell, Ann

Deneulin, Severine

Morales-Fernandez, Emilio J.

Bornemann-Martínez, Guillermo

Mahendravada, Indira

Ballon, Paola

Klein, Elise

Gotoh, Reiko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Human development, capabilities and the ethics of policy ~ Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler
Part 1: Conceptual challenges
What political liberalism and the welfare state left behind: chance and gratitude ~ Reiko Gotoh
The capability approach, agency and sustainable development ~ Elise Klein and Paola Ballon
Public policy: from welfare to empowerment of women in India ~ Indira Mahendravada
The contribution to human development of social policies in the Central American integration system ~ Guillermo Bornemann-Martínez, Pedro Caldentey and Emilio J. Morales-Fernándes
Part 2: Modalities of structure and civil society
A framework for urban integration: the case of Buenos Aires ~ Séverine Deneulin, Eduardo Lépore, Ann Mitchell and Ana Lourdes Suárez
Culture, equity and social wellbeing in New York City ~ Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
The third sector and capability-promoting policies ~ Giuseppe Acconcia, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and Paolo R. Graziano
Informal workers and human development in South Africa ~ Ina Conradie
Part 3: Children, youth and education;
The capability approach: what can it offer child protection policy and practice in England? ~ Brid Featherstone and Anna Gupta
The capability approach and a child standpoint ~ Sharon Bessell
Capabilities and the challenge to inclusive schooling ~ Franziska Felder
Early childhood educational curricula: implications of the capability approach ~ Antoanneta Potsi
Education for all? Providing capabilities for young people with special needs ~ Christian Christrup Kjeldsen
The instrumental values of education in the Southern Cone ~ Xavier Rambla
Conclusion: What is to be done about capability-promoting policies? ~ Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler

Über Autor(innen)

Gotoh, Reiko
Institute of Economic Research

Walker, Melanie
Hans-Uwe Otto is Senior Research Professor and Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research at Bielefeld University. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Guest Professor at Shanghai University. Professor Melanie Walker joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor in Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF researcher. Holger Ziegler is Professor for Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science (specialising in professional theory, social justice research, and impact research) at Bielefeld University and Co-Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research.

Felder, Franziska
University of Vienna

Gupta, Anna
Anna Gupta is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ballon, Paola
University of Oxford

Featherstone, Brid
Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield.

Bessell, Sharon
Australian National University

Mahendravada, Indira
University of Mysore

Ziegler, Holger
Holger Ziegler is Professor for Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science (with specialization in professional theory, social justice research, and impact research) at the Bielefeld University and Co-Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research.

Otto, Hans-Uwe
Hans-Uwe Otto is Senior Research Professor and Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research at Bielefeld University. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Guest Professor at Shanghai University. Professor Melanie Walker joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor in Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF researcher. Holger Ziegler is Professor for Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science (specialising in professional theory, social justice research, and impact research) at Bielefeld University and Co-Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research.

Stern, Mark
University of Pennsylvania

Klein, Elise
Crawford School of Public Policy

Christrup Kjeldsen, Christian
University of Aarhus

Morales-Fernandez, Emilio J.
LOYOLA Leadership School

Rambla, Xavier
Dr. Xavier Rambla is an Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He has led research projects on educational reform, education, poverty and social exclusion, educational development and policies addressing early school leaving in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Spain. He has also collaborated in projects on education and social cohesion in Europe, and critical co-educational action-research in several regions in Spain. Dr. Rambla has also worked to connect academic research with professional practice by collaborating as a consultant with some civil society organizations. His current research interests are educational governance and its implications for inequalities and human development.

Hans-Uwe Otto is Senior Research Professor and Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research at Bielefeld University. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Guest Professor at Shanghai University.
Professor Melanie Walker joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor in Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF researcher.
Holger Ziegler is Professor for Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science (specialising in professional theory, social justice research, and impact research) at Bielefeld University and Co-Director of the Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research.