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== Human Capital Theory ==
Human Capital Theory posits that education has an instrumental role, the acquisition of skills and competencies for the promotion of economic goals<nowiki><ref></nowiki>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780080448947005777<nowiki></ref></nowiki>, where students (future workers) accumulate human capital to increase their value in the marketplace by bringing more expertise and effectiveness to their job tasks<nowiki><ref></nowiki>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780081019214000142<nowiki></ref></nowiki>

== Reductive Human Capital Theory ==
Zachary Stein, author of Education in a Time Between Worlds, uses the term Reductive Human Capital Theory to mean reducing the purpose of education to be only for wage labour employment in a capitalist society<nowiki><ref></nowiki>[https://perspectivainsideoutcom.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/zachary-stein-on-education-in-a-time-between-worlds/#:~:text=But%20reductive%20human%20capital%20theory,turn%20create%20the%20next%20society. https://perspectivainsideoutcom.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/zachary-stein-on-education-in-a-time-between-worlds/#:~:text=But%20reductive%20human%20capital%20theory,turn%20create%20the%20next%20society.]<nowiki></ref></nowiki>:<blockquote>'''This brings us on to another theme, which is what you describe as “the inadequacies of approaches to education based on reductive human capital theory.” What’s wrong with education to get a job?'''

Nothing. In fact, there is something is profoundly correct about human capital theory, in so far as social system need people who can fill the jobs that need to be done. If you are a society that builds ships you need to educate ship builders, or you will no longer be a ship building society, within a single generation.

But ''reductive'' human capital theory says that education is ''only'' about that. And ''that'' is particularly about wage labor employment in a capitalist society. This is very different from the broader and more correct idea that educational systems need to create the humans that in turn create the next society. </blockquote>

Hegemonic Silencing

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== Definition ==
''The use of power by the hegemony to silence questions/dissent that challenge the authority of the hegemony''

This is a common practice in any hegemony, but in the context of this Wiki it is pertinent that Education makes use of this many ways - students are not allowed to question challenge teachers; teachers are not allowed to question policy makers; no one is allowed to question that state's control of education.

== History ==
In a post on [https://web.facebook.com/akila.ramanayake/posts/pfbid02M96NJUcHZZejvFy5nXC6n4WecXFHxTRTt75wwizggYGLiGfbjX8nLgWFvs8aze7Zl?__cft__[0]=AZVKoPRGMwZvFp81NOSb_gQMm53jAiN8mVjfmr-C0xzqGK1CRaf1lku8c7bzf-CuYNeIlb8sWiVjydU03mbIzi6gcC-OsvV6JW-RiyYcUGK_xJY5nL6t-l9XUiktjO2AnD8o8pjDKYbmjWcLTIyumStxaZqRnXAN2mWjGTcLeb1ijg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R Facebook], ven. Kalubowila Ananda used the label "emotional blackmail" to describe ''“පොඩිකාලේ ඉඳන් බුද්ධාගම ගැන මට ගැටලු තිබුනා, ඒවා ප්‍රශ්න කරාම වැඩිහිටියෝ, ස්වාමීන්වහනේලා කිව්වේ ඔයවගේ ප්‍රශ්න අහන්න එපා, පවු සිද්ධවෙනවා, අපායේ යනවා, ආර්‍ය් උපවාද වෙනවා කියලා... මේක බුද්දාගමට නෙවෙයි හැම ආගමකටම පොදු තත්වයක්. ප්‍රශ්න කරන අයව මානසිකව බියවැද්දීම”'' [Loose Translation: "When I was a child I had concerns about Buddhism. When I questioned them, elders, clergy told me not ask such questions, as it is sin, I will go to Hell. Scaring people who ask questions is an issue common to all religions"

[[Sifaan Zavahir]] proposed Hegemonic Silencing as a better term.

== Questions ==
Is there a more suitable term already existent in literature?