Search results for "Capability approach"
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El concepto de dignidad en la teoria de las capacidades de Martha Nussbaum | The Concept of Human Dignity according to Martha Nussbaum?s capability a…
2019
Resumen: La doctrina filosófica y política de derechos humanos, afirma que todos los hombres son iguales en dignidad y derechos. Sin embargo, el concepto de dignidad sigue siendo objeto de importantes debates filosóficos y jurídicos, ya que, si algunos pensadores y juristas sostienen que se trata de un criterio ético fundamental, otros se muestran escépticos y lo consideran un término vacío de contenido e incluso inútil. La vaguedad del concepto y el alcance de su significado ocupa un lugar relevante en el ámbito de la filosofía del derecho, tratándose de una noción que merece ser revisada. El presente artículo pretende esclarecer cuál es el significado que Marta Nussbaum otorga al concepto…
Diritti dei bambini, diritti delle famiglie. Promuovere e formare le “capacità” genitoriali
2020
The paper focuses on the reasons for the link between children's rights and family rights, in order to highlight that parenting educational competences are challenging risk factor in contexts of poverty and always decisive factor for the actual promotion of the rights of children and adolescents. More precisely, firstly the passages of of the Convention in which the necessity of the family is argued as primary context of children's rights. Secondly, it will be problematized the very idea of children's rights in the light of the "capability approach". On this basis, it will be asked whether, from a pedagogical point of view, the family can, as a whole, be the holder of a right to education…
Les systèmes éducatifs engendrent-ils des inégalités de bien-être ? : une recherche comparative internationale
2018
This study investigates the association between post-secondary education and well-being in international comparative perspective, conceptualizing well-being as a capability-informed measure of flourishing. Based on a combined human capital–capability approach, post-secondary education, operationalized as highest post-secondary educational credential, is hypothesized to relate positively with well-being net of individual-level and country-level controls at both the micro and macro levels of analysis. Prominent critiques of these approaches, suggesting indirect effects through occupational sorting at the individual level and economic factors at the country level, are also explored.Beyond thes…
Understanding the use of mobile phones in the agricultural sector in rural Indonesia: using the capability approach as lens
2012
This study aims to investigate the use of mobile phones in the agricultural sector and its possible contributions to development of developing countries, with special reference to Indonesia. In our interpretive work, the capability approach is used as a lens, and the study is informed by data from interviews with various actors and field observations. The paper unearths the pattern of use of mobile phones among farmers in their professional network and shows that ownership and use of mobile phones varies, depending on the farmers' location in the network hierarchy. The study further unveils that the conversion factors play a significant role in order to realise achievement (functionings) fr…
I minori tra nuovi e vecchi media
2020
Il contributo presenta il tema generale della sessione coordinata dall'autrice, sottolineando come il rapporto tra infanzia, media ed educazione, sia diventato sempre più attuale. Quasi ogni aspetto della vita dei minori ha una dimensione online, sia attraverso il loro impegno diretto con le TIC sia attraverso la gestione istituzionale di contenuti o servizi che ne influenzano le condizioni di vita. In questo modo diventa sempre più complesso tracciare il confine tra offline e online, ed è per questo che è necessario esaminare in che modo questo ambiente in evoluzione influisca sul benessere e sullo sviluppo dei bambini dei loro diritti. Il dibattito attuale in molte parti del mondo su mino…
Il dialogo tra Capability Approach e la form-azione delle competenze digitali
2020
Il presente contributo si focalizza su una sfida educativa impellente della contemporaneità: la form-azione della cittadinanza digitale. A partire dal Quadro di riferimento Europeo per le competenze digitali dei cittadini, viene svolta una riflessione basata sull’interconnessione tra il Capability approach e le competenze digitali. Il Capability Approach, sviluppando un orizzonte di senso eticoeconomico-politico basato su: “functioning”, capability” e “agency”, completa e orienta il framework teorico-metodologico dettato dai riferimenti normativi europei sullo sviluppo delle digital skills. L’indagine sulle digital skills può essere un’opportunità per orientare l’azione formativa, in riferi…
Grassroots Social Innovation for Human Development: An Analysis of Alternative Food Networks in the City of Valencia (Spain)
2017
This paper explores the contribution the capability approach (CA) and grassroots innovation (GI) literature makes to a better understanding of the complexity, richness and specificity of bottom-up processes of social innovation (SI), and their specific contribution to social transformation. Using a purely qualitative methodology, the paper addresses a case study—organic food buying groups in the city of Valencia—and examines them through the lenses of SI, GI and CA. By taking four concurrent dimensions of the SI literature (agents, purposes, drivers and processes) and cross-fertilising them with the bottom-up, people-driven character of GI, and the concepts of agency, capabilities, delibera…
Expanding Capabilities for Epistemic Justice Through Social Innovation: The Case of Business and Management Courses in UNIMINUTO, Colombia
2020
The chapter addresses the consideration and development of students’ competencies for social innovation in higher education by generating spaces of engagement with local communities. We combine concepts from the capability approach and epistemic injustice to address this topic and ask these specific questions: which epistemic capabilities can be generated in students when engaging with local communities in fostering social innovation processes, and how? And, how are these processes contributing to challenging epistemic injustice? To address these questions, we propose an original framework connecting ideas from Sen and Fricker and address the specific case of six pilot courses in UNIMINUTO …
Higher learning for happiness? The non-economic benefits of higher education
2015
International audience; This project examines the impact of higher education on wellbeing in Canada and internationally using the capability approach. The focus is theoretical and empirical: The conceptual conclusions and statistical results are compared to those of human capital and utilitarian approaches, and the implications for higher education research in Canada are explored.
Understanding the role of ICT and study circles in enabling economic opportunities: Lessons learned from an educational project in Kenya
2019
In this paper, we explore how the combination of Informa-tion and Communication Technologies (ICT) and self-organised study circles improves rural communities' abilityto enhance their economic oppo ...