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: Received: 7 May 2024 / Approved: 8 May 2024 / Online: 8 May 2024 (11:24:42 CEST)
How to cite:
Carvalho, L.; Almeida, D.; Loures, A.; Ferreira, P.; Rebola, F. Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance. Preprints2024, 2024050474. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0474.v1
Carvalho, L.; Almeida, D.; Loures, A.; Ferreira, P.; Rebola, F. Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance. Preprints 2024, 2024050474. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0474.v1
Carvalho, L.; Almeida, D.; Loures, A.; Ferreira, P.; Rebola, F. Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance. Preprints2024, 2024050474. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0474.v1
APA Style
Carvalho, L., Almeida, D., Loures, A., Ferreira, P., & Rebola, F. (2024). Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0474.v1
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Carvalho, L., Paulo Ferreira and Fernando Rebola. 2024 "Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0474.v1
Abstract
Considering the unquestionable role of education in economic development, it has an impact at a macroeconomic level—contributing to enhancing productivity and innovation, reducing poverty and promoting social cohesion—and at a personal level—ensuring the improvement of knowledge, skills and individual capabilities and promoting social values like empowerment and equality. Notably, quality education is recognized as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which, jointly with other behaviors and attitudes, could impact the development of societies in other fields like health and well-being, cultural preservation, environmental sustainability and even peace and stability—all of them also listed as SDGs. However, the capacity, or not, to reach higher levels of compliance with quality in education (SDG 4) varies from country to country, according to the 2023 Sustainable Development Report results. Thus, the present study used a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to assess the conditions for attaining higher levels of quality education based on the different indicators used to measure SDG 4. The analysis will allow comparisons of results among different countries and provide information about the initiatives that could be relevant to increasing quality education worldwide and for policymakers.
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals; Quality education; Development; Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; Regional analysis.
Subject
Social Sciences, Other
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