Human development is explicitly useful, and its overall effects could be explained through relevant and comprehensive views.Education can be regarded as a crucial factor for the development of capabilities as well as human development.However, education could be an instrument for enhancement of the capabilities which Sen considers: people can improve skills and knowledge through education education can promote capabilities which people can recognise and act through as well as participating in public issues. In his perspective, economy seems to be a significant factor, but when looking at the relationships among three key notions – ‘freedom’, ‘capabilities’ and ‘development’ education does not seem to be linked or playing an important role at first glance. He also emphasizes the concept of ‘capabilities’, which is to enrich people’s own lives and to overcome difficulties through the expansion of freedom, which should be the ends and the means of development under a variety of structures.
In the book, Sen describes development as ‘a process of expanding substantive freedom that people have’ (1999, p.
Amartya Sen’s seminal book Development as Freedom (1999) offers a whole range of new ideas when it comes to understanding development, economics, freedom and rights.
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