ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together into a realist-capability model the capability approach and critical realism. The realist-capability model draws on the benefits that the capability approach brings to vocational education and training (VET), specifically, the capability approach’s insistence on a lens different from and in opposition to the human capital framework that has dominated VET policy and practice. At the same time, it addresses the central weakness of the capability approach, which is its neglect of context, communities and power, by addressing the interaction between agency and structure. The chapter discusses the contribution that each brings to vocational education research.
