The Capabilities Approach and Gendered Education: An Examination of South African Complexities

This article examines Amartya Sen's writings on the capabilities approach and education. Sen sometimes suggests a loose association between education and schooling. Elsewhere he concludes that one can read off the outputs of schooling as an indication of capabilities and an enhancement of freedom. While the capability approach provides a valuable way beyond human capital theorizing about education, Sen's writing fails to take account of the complex settings in which schooling takes place. Sometimes schooling does not entail an enhancement of capabilities and substantive freedom. South African policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic highlight how using the capability approach to evaluation without paying attention to conditions of gender and race inequality yield only half the picture. © 2003, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved

Additional file 1: of What’s in your next-generation sequence data? An exploration of unmapped DNA and RNA sequence reads from the bovine reference individual

Table S1. Statistics from the de novo assembly of unmapped reads from DNA sequencing. Table S2. Statistics from the de novo assembly of unmapped reads from RNA sequencing. Table S3. Summary of all significant alignments from pairwise alignment of de novo assembled contigs from DNA unmapped reads to the nt database. Table S4. Number of significant alignments per tissue from pairwise alignment of de novo assembled contigs from unmapped RNA-seq reads to the nt database. Table S5. Summary of all significant alignments from pairwise alignment of de novo assembled contigs from unmapped RNA-seq reads to the nt database. Table S6. DNA sequencing metadata. Table S7. Genes represented in alignments of de novo assembled contigs from unmapped RNA-seq reads to Bos taurus. Table S8. Genes represented in alignments of de novo assembled contigs from unmapped RNA-seq reads to Bison bison bison, Bubalus bubalis, or Bos mutus. (XLSX 731 kb

Additional file 2: of What’s in your next-generation sequence data? An exploration of unmapped DNA and RNA sequence reads from the bovine reference individual

Note 1: The Onchocerca ochengi reference assembly is contaminated with bovine genomic sequence. Note 2: Estimation of the number of protein coding genes missing or misassembled in the UMD3.1 bovine reference assembly. (DOCX 41 kb

Additional file 3: Table S1. of A clone-free, single molecule map of the domestic cow (Bos taurus) genome

Tabulation of discordances between BtOM1.0 and UMD3.1. (XLSX 399 kb

Additional file 1: Figure S1. of A clone-free, single molecule map of the domestic cow (Bos taurus) genome

Rmap alignments (“hits”) against UMD3.1 for each chromosome; colored hash marks represent aligned Rmaps and annotated by tallies of coverage (X) and total mass (Mb). Rmap alignment for each chromosome is shown at the end of each chromosome. Green box (21,500,000–24,800,000 bp) highlights a 3.3 Mb region harboring dense Rmap alignments. Purple boxes (chr7:7,800,000–22,500,000 bp; chr12:70,360,000–76,785,000 bp) show regions of diminished Rmap alignments, suggesting that the sequence assemblies here are likely problematic. (PDF 16691 kb