Year | definition | source |
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1985 | "The concept of correspondence theory seeks to explain the similarities between the system of formal education and the system of work found in a particular country or society. It does not comprise a theory, but rather a concept embedded within several different, often competing , theoretical frameworks." | Rumberger, R W (1985, p.1030) |
2008 | "... there is a structural correspondence between the social relations of schooling .. and those of production. In other words, young people are integrated into the economic system (what goes on in the capitalist workplace) by what goes on in schooling." | Cole, Mike (2008, p.133) |