Distance and E-Learning, social justice, and development: the relevance of capability approaches to the mission of open universities

Tait, Alan

dc.contributor.author	Tait, Alan
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-30T22:04:20Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-30T22:04:20Z
dc.date.issued	2013-09
dc.identifier.uri	${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/789
dc.description	18 pages	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This article reviews the discourse of mission in large distance teaching and open universities, in order to analyse the theories of development and social justice that are claimed or may be inherent in them. It is suggested that in a number of cases the claims are unsupported or naive. The article goes on to set out the nature of Amartya Sen’s capability approach for development, and to identify its potential for reviewing distance and e-learning more widely as a contributor to development and social justice	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	The International review of research in open and distance learning;Volume 14 No. 4
dc.subject	Distance and e-learning	en_US
dc.subject	Open and distance learning	en_US
dc.subject	Open universities	en_US
dc.subject	on-line learning	en_US
dc.subject	Distance teaching universities	en_US
dc.subject	Development theory	en_US
dc.subject	Social justice	en_US
dc.title	Distance and E-Learning, social justice, and development: the relevance of capability approaches to the mission of open universities	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US