Main article: Economics of educationStudents on their way to school, Hakha, Chin State, MyanmarIt has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high le ...
Main article: Educational theoryPurpose of schools Individual purposes for pursuing education can vary. The understanding of the goals and means of educational socialization processes may also differ ...
Since 1909, the ratio of children in the developing world going to school has increased. Before then, a small minority of boys attended school. By the start of the 21st century, the majority of all ch ...
Alternative Main article: Alternative educationWhile considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed begi ...
Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a predetermined purpose of the schools in the system. School ...
Education began in the earliest prehistory, as adults trained the young of their society in the knowledge and skills they would need to master and eventually pass on. In pre-literate societies this wa ...
Etymologically, the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing") from ēdūcō ("I educate, I train") which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I le ...
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or rese ...
Main article: Citizenship education (subject)"Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public, voluntee ...
Citizenship most usually relates to membership of the nation state, but the term can also apply at the subnational level. Subnational entities may impose requirements, of residency or otherwise, which ...
In recent years, some intergovernmental organizations have extended the concept and terminology associated with citizenship to the international level, where it is applied to the totality of the citiz ...
Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities. In this sense, citizenship was described as "a bundle of rights -- primarily, political participatio ...
Main article: PolisMany thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a fe ...
Further information: Nationality lawA person can be a citizen for several reasons. Usually citizenship of the place of birth is automatic; in other cases an application may be required.Parents are cit ...
Citizenship is the status of a person recognised under the custom or law of a state that bestows on that person (called a citizen) the rights and privileges of citizenship. Such rights and privileges ...
