ABSTRACT
Turning to the community, a social justice perspective develops and extends the way that the context of the community is conceptualised within dominant approaches. Participatory justice includes the rights of individuals and groups to have their voices heard in debates about social justice and injustice and to actively participate in decision-making. N. Fraser’s work provides a means of analysing the barriers to social justice, capability theory is useful for thinking through how education quality can be defined and links discussion of a good-quality education to an overall vision of human development. Fraser’s work provides a means of analysing the barriers to social justice, capability theory is useful for thinking through how education quality can be defined and links discussion of a good-quality education to an overall vision of human development. For exponents of human capital theory, the central rationale for investing in education lies in the contribution that education can make to economic growth.
