Employability, human development and capabilities formation

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Employability, human development and capabilities formation: enablements and constraints
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<LI>the relationship between macro-meso and micro and between government policy and universities</LI>
<LI>an interdisciplinary approach</LI>
<LI>individual and social well-being processes and outcomes of  capabilities expansion for quality of life beyond economic development and human capital, especially for the disadvantaged in society</LI>
<LI>shaped by historical, political social and cultural ‘conversion’ factors.</LI>
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<P STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In particular, I focus empirically on the capability to aspire and on aspirations as a space to investigate operationalizing capabilities and conversion factors, drawing on the biographies of students who were re-interviewed, and focusing in on four stories in some detail.  Finally I consider a grid of four threshold capabilities which emerge as important for employability as human development.
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