The social and personal benefits of learning: a summary of key research findings
This report reveals what researchers have discovered about how education affects individual well-being, family dynamics and community cohesion. It focuses particularly on the impact of learning on health, crime, parenting and citizenship. It also provides a brief introduction to the theoretical work that has helped the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning (WBL) to understand the often complex consequences of education. Many of the findings in this report are derived from WBL analyses of the cohort studies that are tracking the lives of people born in Britain in 1958 and 1970. ... Show more
Authors: Feinstein, Leon; Budge, David; Vorhaus, John; Duckworth, Kathryn
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning (Great Britain)
Published: London, England, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, 2008
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 34 p.
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