Conceptualising and contextualising capacities are complex and contentious processes. This chapter charts possible courses through the maze of terminology, theories and techniques associated with the principles and practices of capacity-building across an array of scholarly disciplines and spheres of employment. Specifically the authors consider how multidisciplinary intersections among four key concepts–capacities, connections, capital and capabilities–are manifested in bioecological and electrical engineering models of capacity-building. The chapter also examines how identified convergences and divergences between the models simultaneously encapsulate wider debates about building capacities and constitute a rigorous and viable direction for enhancing existing approaches to conceptualising and contextualising this field of scholarship.
History
Start Page
31
End Page
50
Number of Pages
20
ISBN-13
9781443841795
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Open Access
No
External Author Affiliations
Central Queensland University QCQU; Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health; Learning and Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC); University of Southern Queensland;