Educational Capital

(noun)

The social standing one achieves by succeeding in academia and achieving academic credentials.

Related Terms

  • sociability
  • Academic Capital

Examples of Educational Capital in the following topics:

  • Intelligence and Inequality

    • Educational capital can produce or reproduce inequality and also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters equal opportunity.
    • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
    • Educational capital refers to educational goods that are converted into commodities to be bought, sold, withheld, traded, consumed, and profited from in the educational system.
    • Educational capital can be utilized to produce or reproduce inequality, and it can also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters social justice and equal opportunity.
    • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality
  • Changing Worker Productivity

    • In economics and long-run growth, worker productivity is influenced directly by fixed capital, human capital, physical capital, and technology.
    • In economics and long-run growth, worker productivity is influenced directly by fixed capital.
    • Human capital and increased worker productivity are critical because they are different from the tangible monetary capital or revenue.
    • Human capital grows cumulatively over a long period of time.
    • Examine the role of human capital in production and economic growth
  • Improving Education and Health Outcomes

    • A country can impact its long-term growth by affecting human capital through education and healthcare investments.
    • Education economics studies economic issues related to education, such as the demand for education and the financial cost of education.
    • Human capital requires investment, but also provides economic returns.
    • Education policies are designed to cover all education fields from early childhood education through college graduate programs.
    • Although health is not directly related to human capital, it is obvious that without health and life human capital will be impacted negatively.
  • Education and Industrialization

    • Education economics is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education and the financing and provision of education.
    • The dominant model of the demand for education is based on human capital theory.
    • Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
    • Educational technology is intended to improve education over what it would be without technology.
    • Define education economics, human capital, human capital flight, and educational technology
  • Alphabet

    • With the Romans, who regularly employed only capitals, "I" served both as vowel and consonant; so also "V".
  • School

    • Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
    • Education is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is transmitted from one generation to the next.
    • Education is perceived as an endeavor that enables children to develop according to their unique needs and potential.
    • It was after World War II, however, that the subject received renewed interest around the world: from technological functionalism in the US, egalitarian reform of opportunity in Europe, and human-capital theory in economics.
    • Education also performs another crucial function.
  • Signaling Consideration

    • Signaling is the conveyance of nonpublic information through public action, and is often used as a technique in capital structure decisions.
    • In terms of capital structure, management should, and typically does, have more information than an investor, which implies asymmetric information.
    • Therefore, investors generally view all capital structure decisions as some sort of signal.
    • Education credentials, such as diplomas, can send a positive signal to potential employers regarding a workers talents and motivation.
    • Explain how a company's attempts at signaling can affect its capital structure
  • Introduction to Pedagogical Problem Solving

    • Pedagogical problem solving is designed to capitalize on the diverse expertise of the teachers and future teachers that are collaborating in the concept study.
  • Compensation Differentials

    • One common source of differences in wage rates is human capital.
    • The compensation differential ensures that individuals are willing to invest in their own human capital.
    • Some of this is due to historical trends affecting these groups that result in less human capital or a concentration in certain lower-paying occupations.
  • Defining Capital

    • In economics, capital (also referred to as capital goods, real capital, or capital assets) references non-financial assets used in the production of goods and services.
    • It is possible for capital goods to be maintained or regenerated depending on the type of capital.
    • Physical Capital: capital that must be produced by human labor before it can become a factor of production (also referred to as manufactured capital).
    • Interest allows capital to be obtained, while profit is the accumulation of the capital.
    • Social Capital is capital that is captured as goodwill or brand value.
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