Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

Livelihood Skills To Life Skills: The Capabilities Approach and Education

Dr. V. Mohanasundaram, C. Chandrasekar

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In the realm of capabilities approach the role of education is multiple and complex. Being educated has been described by Sen as basic a capability to well being (Sen 1992). Education is referred to as opening to other capabilities through providing access to education and promoting a concrete set of basic learning outcomes, such as abilities to read and write. However, from the point of view of the Capabilities Approach, one can also argue that learning that stops at the level of providing only basic reading and writing skill would be insufficient to sustainable development and fighting poverty. The objective of this paper is to theorize on how the quality education can build individual capabilities and thus cause individual freedom and development. By relating Sen’s Capability Approach with Central Human Capabilities as proposed by Martha Nussbaum along with the four pillars of education design by Dakar i.e. i) Recognition of the challenge; ii) The invisibility of human dignity; iii) Collective responsibility and constructive partnership; and iv) Acting with determination, achieving sustainable human development as enunciated at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 can be made possible.

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Dr. V. Mohanasundaram, C.Chandrasekar Livelihood Skills To Life Skills: The Capabilities Approach and Education Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.8 August 2014

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