A CASE STUDY: FUTURE GOALS AND SELF-REGULATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-CULTURALTHEORY

People’s cultural identity and their social relations affect their academic achievements, selfregulation process at any lesson, and motivation on any subject. Future goals are important self-regulatory factors in human functioning. So, future goals or any subgoals that are needed in order to reach the future goal are also affected by those social conditions. The aim of this study is to describe students’ future goals and plans according to their sociocultural context and to examine the effects of those goals and plans on their academic life. The study was carried out as a case study and qualitative research methodology is used. Study group was consist of 3 7th grade students. These 3 students were chosen by purposively sampled, and in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with these students.