How school leaders justify digitalization in vocationally oriented Swiss upper-secondary schools: a qualitative content analysis through the lens of convention theory in education

Maria-Luisa Schmitz, Philipp Gonon, Juliette Désiron, Tessa Consoli & Chiara Antonietti (2026) Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Online first, open access Abstract. School leaders play an important role, when it comes to digitalisation of teaching and learning. In this study, different arguments for school-specific digital strategies by school leaders were analysed from a convention theory perspective. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 Swiss school-leaders of 2 sec...