Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa : : Opportunities, Obstacles and Outcomes.
"This book explores learning outcomes for low-income rural and township youth at five South African universities. The book is framed as a contribution to southern and Africa-centred scholarship, adapting Amartya Sen's capability approach and a framework of key concepts: capabilities, funct...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : African Minds,, 2022. ©2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Personal conversion factors and students' engagement in extra-curricular activities
- Conclusion: Conversion factors for university participation
- Summary of findings about capabilities for participation
- CHAPTER 7 - Pathways for moving on from university
- Part 1: Different pathways for moving on from university for Miratho students
- Further study pathway
- Employment pathway
- No pathway: Studies completed but unemployed
- Part 2: How conversion factors influenced moving-on pathways
- Educational conversion factors and their effect on labour market opportunities
- Material conversion factors and their influence on moving on
- Social conversion factors and their effects on moving on
- Environmental conversion factors and moving on
- Personal conversion factors and students' moving on.
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 8 - Five students' life histories: Conversion factors, functionings and inequality
- Mashudu: Metro
- Life before university
- University access
- University participation
- Moving on from university
- Sonto: City
- Life before university
- University access
- University participation
- Moving on from university
- Aphiwe: Provincial
- Life before university
- University access
- University participation
- Moving on from university
- Madoda: Rural
- Life before university
- University access
- University participation
- Moving on from university
- Rimisa: Country
- Life before university
- University access
- University participation
- Moving on from university
- What these five life histories tell us about low-income university students
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 9 - Access, participation and moving on for low-income youth
- Changing the informational basis for justice judgements
- Practical operationalisation of ideas
- Summary of findings
- Challenges and change
- Concluding thoughts
- Appendix A. Conversion factor tables for Ntando
- Appendix B. Ideas for the measurement of capability domains and functionings
- References
- Index
- Back cover.