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  1. 2015 HDCA Conference – Georgetown University

    …ss of evolving capabilities. By fostering the acquisition of communicative competence, ‘complex thinking’ and a dialogical attitude, the capability approach offers a counter narrative to education understood as building human capital. This panel discusses the theoretical advantages and challenges of education policies based on the capability approach. It then examines theoretically how educational systems should be linked to local systems and fina…

  2. Just Published: Human Development in Times of Crisis Renegotiating Social Justice

    http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137572127#aboutBook Editors: Otto, H.-U., Pantazis, S., Ziegler, H., Potsi, A. (Eds.) This book examines human development in times of crisis, and its effect on social justice and democracy, with a focus on the delay in developmental progress caused by the ‘Great Recession’, the worst economic crisis in decades. The book places particular focus on policies of human development. It scrutinizes the philosophical…

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