Advances in Economics of Education
A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 56395
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistical analysis; applied econometrics; multivariate data analysis; human capital; educational system efficiency and effectiveness
Interests: statistical and econometric methods for evaluating the performance and the efficiency of public organizations - especially universities, schools and local governments
Interests: evaluation of education and training systems; improving levels of education and the quality of teaching and learning processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue of Economies on “Advances in Economics of Education” is to study the big current changes in macroeconomics of education (the “demand” for advances in economics of Education): glocalism, sustainability, new definitions of human capital, and the need to orient education toward new targets of education (communities, intermediate bodies, social capital). Particularly, the topics of interest are:
- Analysis of organizational innovations that must be introduced to face big changes (policies):
- Levels of “optimal” mixes of multi- and interdisciplinary education (teaching program planning and flexibility; mix of theory and experiences);
- Organizing the training and recruitment of teachers;
- Rethinking long life learning;
- Evaluating—in the perspective of multi- and interdisciplinarity—learning performances (character skills);
- Facing the growing need of interaction of educational systems;
- Organizing orientation activities;
- Diffusing best practices of education;
- Evaluating digital innovations in schools and higher education institutions by assessing the impact of technological tools and strategies on students’ performance and/or institutional performance (including costs, efficiency gains);
- Study of the factors affecting the equality of opportunity for students, such as the financial and educational aid to students and their families—with a specific reference to the overarching objective of contrasting educational poverty;
- Evaluation of the efficiency of schools and HEIs’ operations, considering a wide array of indicators for their inputs (financial and human resources) and outputs (cognitive and non-cognitive skills, research products, relationship with the communities, etc.);
- New definition of human capital involving not only cognitive skills, such as remembering, speaking, understanding, making connections, deducing, and evaluating, but also involves transversal qualities, personality dispositions called “noncognitive skills” or “soft skills” or “character skills”.
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Vittadini
Prof. Dr. Tommaso Agasisti
Dr. Roberto Ricci
Prof. Dr. Lanfranco Senn
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Educational organizational innovations
- Equality of opportunity for students
- Efficiency of schools
- Human capital, cognitive skills, noncognitive skills
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