eprintid: 1546715 rev_number: 42 eprint_status: archive userid: 587 source: pure dir: disk0/01/54/67/15 datestamp: 2017-04-01 03:52:51 lastmod: 2025-03-20 13:38:53 status_changed: 2019-02-12 17:09:09 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Unterhalter, Elaine creators_name: Brighouse, Harry title: Distribution of what for social justice in education? The case of education for all by 2015 ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The chapter considers how assessments are made concerning global social justice and education. It explores the need to consider not only international patterns of access to and very narrowly defined achievements in education but also to assess the distribution of other aspects of education deemed valuable, particularly given complex global class, gender, race and ethnic inequalities. It uses the example of the movement to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015 associated with UN agencies, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the work of many governments worldwide, and looks critically at the indicators that have been developed to evaluate this. We argue these are inadequate to capture what would rightly count as “education for all.” We argue instead for the appropriateness of the capability approach, particularly taking issue with its Rawlsian critics such as Thomas Pogge, who defend a resourcist alternative. We highlight how thinking about distribution and capabilities requires a range of different ways of evaluating social justice in the provision of education. This opens up institutions to critique and we offer some thoughts toward how this approach to evaluation might be developed to assist in critical policy work. date: 2007 date_type: published publisher: Palgrave Macmillan official_url: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604810_4 full_text_type: other verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1076388 doi: 10.1057/9780230604810_4 isbn_13: 978-1-349-53573-6 lyricists_name: Unterhalter, Elaine lyricists_id: ESUNT09 actors_name: Woodward, Jack actors_id: JWOOA60 actors_role: owner full_text_status: restricted place_of_pub: New York, NY, USA pagerange: 67-86 refereed: FALSE book_title: Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education editors_name: Walker, Melanie editors_name: Unterhalter, Elaine citation: Unterhalter, Elaine; Brighouse, Harry; (2007) Distribution of what for social justice in education? The case of education for all by 2015. In: Walker, Melanie and Unterhalter, Elaine, (eds.) Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education. (pp. 67-86). Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, USA. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546715/1/Unterhalter2007Distribution67.pdf