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Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa : Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 -- Raising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education: The Miratho Project -- Rationale for pursuing the human development capability approach (CA) -- Methodology and methods of data generation -- Note on data analysis -- The longitudinal life-history interviews -- Participatory research -- Student survey -- Ethical conduct of the research -- Use of secondary datasets -- Capability-based learning outcomes in the Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 -- Capabilities and functionings: Reconceptualising learning outcomes -- Part 1: The capability approach, poverty and higher education -- Poverty reduction and the capability approach -- Higher education and the capability approach -- Part 2: Problematising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education -- The politics of learning outcomes -- Measurement challenges -- Part 3: Learning outcomes as capability-based key functionings -- Learning outcomes at the level of teaching sessions and modules -- Learning outcomes at the level of programmes and institutions -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 -- A challenging context and intersectional conversion factors -- Objective conversion factors: Society and economy -- Objective conversion factors: University -- Foregrounding poverty -- Brief commentary on the hardship numbers -- Poverty and well-being of university students -- Subjective conversion factors emerging from life-history interviews -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 -- The Miratho Capabilitarian Matrix: Evaluating individual achievements and institutional arrangements -- Step one: A principled method -- Step two: Identifying capability domains and key functionings -- Epistemic contribution domain -- Ubuntu domain -- Practical reason domain -- Navigation domain -- Narrative domain.…”
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Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa : Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 -- Raising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education: The Miratho Project -- Rationale for pursuing the human development capability approach (CA) -- Methodology and methods of data generation -- Note on data analysis -- The longitudinal life-history interviews -- Participatory research -- Student survey -- Ethical conduct of the research -- Use of secondary datasets -- Capability-based learning outcomes in the Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 -- Capabilities and functionings: Reconceptualising learning outcomes -- Part 1: The capability approach, poverty and higher education -- Poverty reduction and the capability approach -- Higher education and the capability approach -- Part 2: Problematising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education -- The politics of learning outcomes -- Measurement challenges -- Part 3: Learning outcomes as capability-based key functionings -- Learning outcomes at the level of teaching sessions and modules -- Learning outcomes at the level of programmes and institutions -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 -- A challenging context and intersectional conversion factors -- Objective conversion factors: Society and economy -- Objective conversion factors: University -- Foregrounding poverty -- Brief commentary on the hardship numbers -- Poverty and well-being of university students -- Subjective conversion factors emerging from life-history interviews -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 -- The Miratho Capabilitarian Matrix: Evaluating individual achievements and institutional arrangements -- Step one: A principled method -- Step two: Identifying capability domains and key functionings -- Epistemic contribution domain -- Ubuntu domain -- Practical reason domain -- Navigation domain -- Narrative domain.…”
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Testing democracy which way is South Africa going? /
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Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /
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Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /
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