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‘ ‘ ...the achieving of a life of rich significance....’ (John Dewey)

A human capabilities approach to broadening the reach, responsiveness and quality of the university curriculum. A presentation to the University of Limerick Colloquium, 20 January 2010 by Professor Melanie Walker, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.

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‘ ‘ ...the achieving of a life of rich significance....’ (John Dewey)

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  1. A human capabilities approach to broadening the reach, responsiveness and quality of the university curriculum A presentation to the University of Limerick Colloquium, 20 January 2010 by Professor Melanie Walker, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

  2. ‘‘ ...the achieving of a life of rich significance....’ (John Dewey) • What kind of world and what kind of society do we want to work and live in? What does the world and society we currently work and live in look like? • What do we need to do to reduce the gap between the ideal and the real? • What should public universities be doing and what should they be trying to achieve? • How then ought a university curriculum to entail a society’s future?

  3. Outline of steps in the argument • Universities and development: • Human capital policy model – mind the well-being gap • Human capabilities policy model • Education capabilities • Capabilities and curriculum-as-human-development (my normative position) • Towards an expansive university education

  4. Gini co-efficients of income inequality, mid 2000s (OECD, 2008)

  5. Human capital model and outcomes

  6. Capabilities model and outcomes

  7. A multi-dimensional integrated/aligned curriculum-as-human development model: ‘the achieving of a life of rich significance.’

  8. What do we do? The wealth and power of humanity in the 21st century could be used to create a far better world’ (Economics for Equity and Environment ) Universities uniquely combine a bundle of functions: scholars and scientists, education of professionals, general education& formation of enlightened citizens. (Habermas, 1989)

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