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The Culture of Futility and Its Impact on Study Culture in Technical/Vocational Schools in Belgium
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Starting from the present knowledge society with its social overvaluing of cognition and white-collar jobs at the expense of manual labour, this article examines whether school type--academic versus technical/vocational schools--relates to students' sense of futility. It assesses the schools' culture of futility and investigates the explanatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Technical Education, School Culture