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Wilson, Terri S. – Educational Theory, 2016
School choice positions parents as consumers who select schools that maximize their preferences. This account has been shaped by rational choice theory. In this essay, Terri Wilson contrasts a rational choice framework of "preferences" with John Dewey's understanding of "interest." To illustrate this contrast, she draws on an…
Descriptors: School Choice, Social Theories, Models, Preferences
Bredo, Eric – Educational Theory, 2009
In "Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education," Michael Feuer raises concerns about the consequences of basing educational policy on the model of rational choice drawn from economics. Policy making would be better and more realistic, he suggests, if it were based on a newer procedural model drawn from cognitive…
Descriptors: Criticism, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Policy, Economics
Stables, Andrew; Gough, Stephen – Educational Theory, 2006
In this essay, Andrew Stables and Stephen Gough explore some of the implications for educational policy and practice of a view of living (and, therefore, of learning) as semiotic engagement. Such a view, Stables and Gough argue, has the potential to displace or circumvent essentially Cartesian models currently dominant within learning theory…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Cultural Context, Semiotics, Educational Policy