Issue XI: 32-35: The Value of Education in a Changing Society

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It states that beyond the threshold level of fundamental functionings, resources should be devoted in ways that allow the higher achievements of some to benefit the lower achievement of others. While this framework does not provide a theory of educational equality, it nevertheless helps in providing a possible answer to the debated question of what constitutes educational equality for children with disabilities and special educational needs. i(notes available online) Bibliography Anderson, E. (1999) What is the Point of Equality?, Ethics, 109.3, pp. 283–337. Brighouse, H. (2003) Educational Equality and Justice, in: R. Curren (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Oxford, Blackwell

Publishing), pp. 471–486. Nussbaum, M. (2000) Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Rawls, J. (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge, Harvard University Press). Sen, A. (1992) Inequality Reexamined (Oxford, Clarendon Press). Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom (Oxford, Oxford University Press). Terzi, L. (2007), ‘Capability and Educational Equality: The just distribution of resources to students with disabilities and special educational needs’, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (4) 757-774. Terzi, L. (2008) Justice and Equality in Education: A Capability Perspective to Disability and Special Educational Needs (London and New York, Continuum).

_____________________________ Lorella Terzi is a professor at the School of Education, Roehampton University

THE VALUE OF EDUCATION IN A CHANGING SOCIETY By Associate Professor Ana Ferrer

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HE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION HAS

become one of the most prolific research areas in economics. One reason is that the framework employed by economists to study education, human capital theory, provides a simple but very powerful explanation of why and when individuals choose to accu32

mulate labour market skills. The basic mechanism that is proposed postulates that individuals forego present wages in low productivity occupations in order to obtain the skills that will allow them to enter high productivity, high wage occupations in the future. Second, research into the economics of


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