Capability, Social Justice and Education in the Niger Delta

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" Capability, Social Justice and Education in the Niger Delta "
Edozie, Imoh Colins

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1107854
Doc. No	:	TLpq2457978749
Main Entry	:	Edozie, Imoh Colins
Title & Author	:	Capability, Social Justice and Education in the Niger Delta\ Edozie, Imoh Colins
College	:	The University of Toledo
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	263
Abstract	:	The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the complex developmental and conflict prevention challenges in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria as well as the role education can play in the pursuit of justice in that context from within the theoretical framework of Amartya Sen’s capability approach to justice. The capability approach to justice is grounded in the idea of the realization of a conception of the good conceived as substantive freedom, as a combination of the development of internal capacity with the provision of substantive social opportunities for people to do and be what they have reason to value. It is argued that the capabilities approach is the most appropriate theoretical framework for articulating the diagnosis and remedies of injustice in the context of the Niger Delta as compared to Rawlsian and Utilitarian theories of justice. The evaluative standard employed in the analysis is how well a theoretical framework of justice diagnoses and addresses the resource conversion problem, the problem of differential resource conversion which undermines human well-being, is at the core of the Niger Delta’s developmental challenges. Furthermore, it is argued that a capability-based educational approach, aligned with progressive and social reconstructive philosophical principles, has the potential to empower the people to pursue social justice in the Niger Delta through the facilitation of public reasoning and deliberation.
Subject	:	Educational philosophy
	:	Peace studies