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Perrotta, Carlo – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This paper focuses on the relationship between rational beliefs, culture and agency in formal school settings. This relationship is analysed in the context of the adoption of technological innovations. Interviews and focus groups with 39 secondary teachers from England and other European countries were carried out. The analysis highlights a number…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Adoption (Ideas), Decision Making
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Vergolini, Loris; Vlach, Eleonora – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
In this paper, we analyse social inequalities along the horizontal dimension of education in Italy. More precisely, we focus on the role of family background in completing specific fields of study at both secondary and tertiary levels of education. To mitigate the limitations of the traditional sequential model, we construct a typology of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, College Graduates, High Schools