Do you teach about human development and capabilities? In 2020-21, we are organising a series of online workshops to bring […]
Children and Youth
'Children and Youth Capabilities TG' is an interdisciplinary network including, among others, economists, social scientists, anthropologists, demographers, statisticians, philosophers and psychologists. It aims at developing a bottom up framework based on the capability approach to address theoretical and practical issues related to children's human development. We have organised numerous international meetings and workshops to stimulate debate on the capability approach and its theoretical and empirical applications in relation to children. These spaces for critical dialogues have culminated in a range of publications and members may be interested in the book, Hart, C.S., Biggeri, M. & Babic, B. (Eds) (2014) Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth: International Applications of the Capability Approach Inside and Outside of Schools (London, Bloomsbury). Other key publications for those interested in human development and children and young people include, Biggeri, M., Ballet, J. & Comim, F. (Eds) (2011) Children and the Capability Approach (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, UK) and Lessmann, O., Otto, H. & Zielger, H. (Eds) (2011) Closing the Capabilities Gap: Renegotiating Social Justice for the Young (Opladen, Barbara Budrich, Germany). Please download here a literature review on children and the capability approach, updated as of March 2019. This is the result of a collective effort among TG members to help scholars and practitioners to navigate across existing materials.
We welcome new and existing members to join us in continuing our exploration of children and young people's capabilities and the possibilities for further developing, collaborating and applying our work in this field. If you have plans or ideas for events, projects or publications them please share details with the coordinators so we can publicise your contributions and hopefully stimulate networking among our membership. We do have some overlapping interests with other HDCA thematic groups so please do check out their group pages too.
Events
News
Oct 15 2020 Workshop Series: Teaching on human development and capabilities
Do you teach about human development and capabilities? In 2020-21, we are organising a series of online workshops to bring […]
Graduate and Undergraduate Workshop Series
Graduate Workshop Series Following requests from graduate HDCA members we are planning to launch a series of writing workshops to […]
Apr 13 2020 COVID-19 Reflections: A Global Capability Crisis
by Paul Anand Fellow, Human Development & Capability Association Oxford, UK The global crisis caused by COVID 19 has been […]
Jul 27 2019 NEW BOOK: Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work
By Oliver Mutanga Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Students-with-Disabilities-and-the-Transition-to-Work-A-Capabilities-Approach/Mutanga/p/book/9781138611825 Description This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the […]
Videos & Webinars
Children during the Pandemic: A view from the CA
This webinar aims to shed light on the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on children by looking at it through the capabilities approach. It brings together three scholars from different corners of the globe, who will discuss the situation of children in their own regions, and how this may speak to concerns about the effects that the pandemic has had on children’s well-being and capabilities.
Speakers:
Caroline Hart (University of Sheffield): Children living in a Covid-19 World: Reflections from England
Kate Sollis (Australian National University): COVID-19 and its impacts on children and young people in Australia: An evidence review
Graciela Tonon (Universidad de Palermo): Children`s views on the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study
HDCA Webinar Children and Youth