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Howard, F. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8493-5721, Louise Livingstone, S. and Talbot, S.,
2020.
Informal education as freedom – re-considering youth and community work through a capabilities approach.
Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory, 11 (3).
ISSN 1359-1983
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Abstract
This article seeks to take a new approach to valuing youth and community work in an attempt to cut across deficit modelling. We engage with Sen and Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach (Nussbaum and Sen, 1993) as a way of acknowledging an assets-based position on young people and a human development approach to community development. Firstly we describe a student-led research project undertaken across three settings within a new youth and community provision based in the north-west of England. We explore the utility of the Capabilities Approach, and in particular the concept of ‘functionings’ as a theory for change that emphasises informal education, critical pedagogy and social justice. We argue that youth and community work offers an expansion of capabilities which affords the education of a particular set of values, and enables a variety of beneficial functionings. Therefore, the Capabilities Approach can serve as a framework for the future evaluation of this work.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory | ||||
| Creators: | Howard, F., Louise Livingstone, S. and Talbot, S. | ||||
| Publisher: | Institute of Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh | ||||
| Date: | 17 December 2020 | ||||
| Volume: | 11 | ||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1359-1983 | ||||
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| Rights: | This is an Open Access journal. All material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. Please read our Open Access, Copyright and Permissions policies for more information. | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 16 Apr 2021 14:47 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:04 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42712 |
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