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All notes taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwJfinEp010
What did Pierre Bourdieu say about education?
Cultural reproduction Model
Habitus- tastes, attributes of individual
Field- cultural framework of a specific context
Cultural capital- value a person’s cultural knowledge has within a field
How is education a cultural application?
Middle-class habitus given symbolic capital
Teachers and heads are middle-class
Those who write curriculum and policies are middle-class
Working class disadvantaged subject to symbolic violence
How does education become cultural reproduction?
Language
Dress sense
Cultural knowledge
What are the contemporary applications of education?
Ofsted- Cultural capital
School policies on uniform
Curriculum based on middle-class knowledge
Teachers’ judgements
Who supports Bourdieu?
Archer- Nike identities
Reay- Psycho-social approach- Cleft habitus
Sullivan- students with higher cultural capital achieve higher
What are the criticisms of Bourdieu’s view on education?
Functionalists suggest that education is meritocratic
Socialised into value consensus- skills are needed to achieve
Students acquire cultural capital throughout their education
