Extreme wealth inequality imposes significant constraints on financially vulnerable families, especially the development of children in those families. Child Development Accounts (CDAs)—investment accounts offering financial access, subsidies, and incentives to provide assets for children—are designed reduce over time promote human development. We review existing evidence from a test CDA policy...

A total of 274 preservice teacher education students were surveyed at the beginning and end of a one-semester unit on Human Development and Education which combined formal instruction with structured fieldwork experiences. The latter included interviewing community members regarding their knowledge of Down syndrome and opinions on inclusive education, and writing an associated report. At the en...

Public policy teaching cases serve two important pedagogical purposes that intersect for me. First, they fulfill the professional school student’s demand for “real world” materials and skills (Barnes, Christensen, & Hansen, 1994; Kenney, 2001a). Second, a central tenet of feminist social science calls for examining social policy from the point of view of the objects of policy, giving voice to w...

In response to growing contestation and politicisation of trade policy, policy makers have aimed enhance the ‘inclusiveness’ through institutionalisation deliberative forums in which civil society organisations participate. However, it is not clear whether these processes actually inclusiveness. This article adds our understanding this question by, first, developing an analytical framework (the...