Elaine Unterhalter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Unterhalter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Unterhalter |
| SIGNATURE | UNTERHALTER E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and Intersecting Inequalities in Education
This article considers how useful measurement and indicators are in developing insight into a problem as complex as gender injustice and education. It poses the question about what we ought to evaluate with regard to individuals, institutions, discourses and countries when we make assertions about gender inequality in education and how to address this. The paper provides a way of thinking about gender and education that highlights how inadequate …
Measuring Education for the Millennium Development Goals
Education has a prominent position in the current Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework; targets on schooling are attached to two of the goals. However, from a human development perspective, the narrow framing of the education targets and indicators in the MDGs had perverse consequences, stemming from the omission of salient aspects of quality, context, and equity. The selected targets limited the capacity of the education sector to support…
Trade-off, Comparative Evaluation and Global Obligation
This article considers how the capability approach has been linked with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poses the question derived from a number of critical commentaries as to whether the approach has provided a robust enough critique of the exploitative relations associated with global corporate capitalism. It focuses on the first three MDGs concerned with poverty, education and gender, and shows how writers working within the human …
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education
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Trade-off, Comparative Evaluation and Global Obligation
This article considers how the capability approach has been linked with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poses the question derived from a number of critical commentaries as to whether the approach has provided a robust enough critique of the exploitative relations associated with global corporate capitalism. It focuses on the first three MDGs concerned with poverty, education and gender, and shows how writers working within the human …
Measuring Education for the Millennium Development Goals
Education has a prominent position in the current Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework; targets on schooling are attached to two of the goals. However, from a human development perspective, the narrow framing of the education targets and indicators in the MDGs had perverse consequences, stemming from the omission of salient aspects of quality, context, and equity. The selected targets limited the capacity of the education sector to support…
Beyond Access
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education
Trade-off, Comparative Evaluation and Global Obligation
This article considers how the capability approach has been linked with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poses the question derived from a number of critical commentaries as to whether the approach has provided a robust enough critique of the exploitative relations associated with global corporate capitalism. It focuses on the first three MDGs concerned with poverty, education and gender, and shows how writers working within the human …
Measuring Education for the Millennium Development Goals
Education has a prominent position in the current Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework; targets on schooling are attached to two of the goals. However, from a human development perspective, the narrow framing of the education targets and indicators in the MDGs had perverse consequences, stemming from the omission of salient aspects of quality, context, and equity. The selected targets limited the capacity of the education sector to support…
Gender and Intersecting Inequalities in Education
This article considers how useful measurement and indicators are in developing insight into a problem as complex as gender injustice and education. It poses the question about what we ought to evaluate with regard to individuals, institutions, discourses and countries when we make assertions about gender inequality in education and how to address this. The paper provides a way of thinking about gender and education that highlights how inadequate …
Human Rights and Development (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Capability approach (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Inequality (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works)