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education and economic development  

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  • Education is related to various kinds of development: individual human development, different dimensions of societal development (e.g., political and cultural), and national economic development. This entry focuses on the last relationship, between economic development and education, which can be understood from different perspectives, grounded in functionalist, conflict, or less structuralist social theories. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Education and Economic Development]

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