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Handbook of the Life Course

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Progress through the educational system is an aspect of the individual life course that has important implications for societal inequality. This interplay between individual functioning and population processes is well aligned with the life course perspective, but serious engagement with this perspective in educational research is a relatively new phenomenon. This chapter discusses the value of life course insights for understanding education and the value of educational research for advancing life course thinking by first describing selected educational processes, inequalities, and policy responses across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and then highlighting how key life course concepts play out in the educational system.

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