@article{article_370433, title={EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOURAL FAILURES}, journal={IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education}, volume={3}, pages={628–637}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18768/ijaedu.370433}, url={https://izlik.org/JA26KP99MW}, author={Terziev, Venelin and Kanev, Dimitar}, keywords={education,limited rationality,lack of foresight,momentum,herd-instinct behaviour}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The work defences the thesis that even ensured equal opportunities to invest in education and to get better life, even if this is the best life alternative for them, young people and their families would hardly take complete advantage of these opportunities </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">This particularly regards the ones in an unequal position </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The reasons are looked for in behavioural failures connected to hyperbolic discounting and to focusing on the present </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">momentum </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> stereotypes </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">, </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">herd-instinct behaviour </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">the paralysis at the availability of numerous options and defects of will </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">. </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The work also suggests solutions, which to help young people and their families to take adequate advantage of educational opportunities and to develop their potential, getting over or softening behavioural deformations and deviations from reality </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.  <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, number={9}