Using the human capabilities approach as a normative framework to evaluate institutional teaching and learning interventions at UWC
Abstract
This article uses the human capabilities approach to evaluate an institutional approach
to teaching and learning at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The human
capabilities framework makes it possible to examine the impact of social arrangements
and interventions on the expansion of valuable beings and doings in teaching and
learning. The institutional approach at UWC which involved the development of a
strategic plan for teaching and learning and a case study of the teaching and learning
retreats for Heads of Academic Departments is examined using the normative framework
of the human capabilities approach. The constraints and opportunities regarding the
institutionalisation of teaching and learning are illuminated through an analysis of data
from a human capabilities perspective.