Sandars John, Sarojini Hart Caroline
The University of Sheffield , UK.
Med Teach. 2015;37(6):510-20. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2015.1013927. Epub 2015 Feb 20.
The capability approach, with its origins in economic and human development work, has a focus on the freedom of persons to make choices about how they wish to lead a valued life. There has been increasing recognition within general education that the capability approach offers a theoretical and practical framework to both implement and evaluate educational interventions that are designed to increase social justice, such as widening participation. There is great potential for the capability approach to also offer medical education a creative way for changing and evaluating curricula, with an emphasis on the teacher facilitating students to achieve their potential by recognising their aspirations and challenging the constraining factors to achieve their aspirations.
能力方法起源于经济和人类发展工作，侧重于人们自由选择他们希望如何过上有价值生活的权利。普通教育领域越来越认识到，能力方法为实施和评估旨在增进社会公平（如扩大参与度）的教育干预措施提供了理论和实践框架。能力方法也极有可能为医学教育提供一种创新方式来变革和评估课程，重点在于教师要通过认可学生的志向并挑战阻碍他们实现志向的因素，来促使学生发挥其潜力。
