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Direct linkPerrotta, 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
Pasztor, Adel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
With reference to capital theories and rational choice theory, this paper aims to understand how abilities and schooling ambitions are intertwined with social class, gender and ethnicity. By drawing on 16 in-depth interviews carried out with highly educated second-generation Turks in the Netherlands, the paper discusses the resources,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Role of Education
Akpinar, Taner; Gün, Servet – International Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Human capital theory was developed to study how individual agents make rational choices or how they invest in human capital to maximize their welfare. One of the leading founders of this perspective, Becker, argues that schooling, on-the-job training, medical care, migration and searching for information about prices and incomes are different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Models, Apprenticeships
