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Crosbie, Veronica – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
The capabilities approach offers a valuable analytical lens for exploring the challenge and complexity of intercultural dialogue in contemporary settings. The central tenets of the approach, developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, involve a set of humanistic goals including the recognition that development is a process whereby people's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Crosbie, Veronica – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This study, concerning the development of cosmopolitan citizenship, draws on theories of human development and capabilities (Sen 1999; Nussbaum 2000) from a social justice perspective, where individual wellbeing is articulated as having the freedom to live a life of one's choosing. In the context of an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Justice, Well Being, English (Second Language)