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1 online resource (212 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Epistemic contribution domain -- Ubuntu domain -- Practical reason domain -- Navigation domain -- Narrative domain -- Emotional balance domain -- Inclusion and participation domain -- Future work or study -- Step three: Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 -- Opportunities and obstacles in achieving higher education access -- Material conversion factors: Money/funding -- Educational conversion factors: Schooling -- Environmental conversion factors: Geography and community -- Geography -- Community -- Social conversion factors: Information and extended family and significant others |
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Information -- Extended families and significant others -- Personal conversion factors: Attitudes, values and characteristics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 -- Possibilities for student transformation through capability-enhancing university participation -- Part 1: Academic participation -- Material conversion factors and students' engagement in processes of learning -- Environmental conversion factors and students' experiences of university -- Social conversion factors and students' experiences of being at university -- Educational conversion factors -- Part 2: Non-academic participation |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
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Electronic books. .
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781928502395 |
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9781928502401 |
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1928502407 |
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1928502393 |
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