Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4938476 International Journal of Educational Development 2017 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
This study explores the differences between student and parents' value orientation for a college degree across a large sample in the UAE. The value of obtaining a higher education degree in the UAE is transgenerational. Salient benefits of a college degree can be categorized by economic, social and entrepreneurial factors and a model is set forth based on an intrinsic/extrinsic and self vs. other continuum. Education and income are related to valuing several educational outcomes. The most important factor identified across generations included both self-transcendence and self-enhancement values. From 2011-2015, the importance of higher education's social benefits has increased.
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