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Students’ Conceptions of Work and the Understanding of the Economic Value of Labor: A Developmental Study of Unemployment and Job Precarity in Times of an Economic Crisis

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dc.contributor.authorAlonso Tajuelo, Lorena
dc.contributor.authorKohen Kohen, Raquel Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:55:00Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:55:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-29
dc.description.abstractIn the aftermath of the financial and economic recession of 2008, 130 Spanish students of five age groups (8 to 17 years) and two socioeconomic backgrounds were individually interviewed about unemployment and lower wages. The participants were presented with two hypothetical situations, and their responses were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The results indicated that children bring their conceptions of work when attempting to explain those phenomena. Specifically, it was found that the explanations were closely associated with the comprehension of the notion of surplus value (i.e., the idea that workers create more value than the cost of their salaries), and that the development of this notion proceeds in three levels. Younger children were simply unaware of the capacity of workers to create value (Level 1), which gave rise to some alternative conceptions (e.g., the idea that money for salaries comes from external sources). The children within the age range of 12-13 began to understand that workers create some value (Level 2). At this level, however, the notion of surplus value was not fully understood, and the idea that money for salaries comes from external sources persisted in a variety of ways. From the ages of 13- 14, the children begin to understand that a wage is the price of labor and that the employer earns a profit because workers create more value than the cost of their wages (Level 3). The article presents a discussion of the possible reasons behind the slow progress observed and highlights some suggestions for educational practice.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-022-00619-8
dc.identifier.issn0256-2928
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12709
dc.journal.titleEuropean journal of psychology of education
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject.keywordseconomic crisis
dc.subject.keywordsunemployment
dc.subject.keywordsalternative conceptions
dc.subject.keywordssurplus value
dc.subject.keywordseconomic education
dc.titleStudents’ Conceptions of Work and the Understanding of the Economic Value of Labor: A Developmental Study of Unemployment and Job Precarity in Times of an Economic Crisises
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