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Social Capital: An Educational Panacea or a Challenge to the Way We Do Policy?

Author(s) -

Tom Healy

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european educational research journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715

H-Index - 34

ISSN - 1474-9041

DOI - 10.2304/eerj.2006.5.2.131

Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , value (mathematics) , human capital , social capital , sociology , public relations , political science , positive economics , social science , economics , economic growth , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , machine learning , computer science

This article focuses on these key themes: (1) the value of education as learning to be fully human, (2) the value of education as learning to be fully human with others and for others — inviting us to consider the concept of ‘social capital’ as a way of tapping into and releasing this value; and accordingly, (3) a number of practical considerations for how educational policy and practice can be influenced.

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