Bourdieu on Education

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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

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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

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How does education become cultural reproduction?

  • Language

  • Dress sense

  • Cultural knowledge

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What are the contemporary applications of education?

  • Ofsted- Cultural capital

  • School policies on uniform

  • Curriculum based on middle-class knowledge

  • Teachers’ judgements

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Who supports Bourdieu?

  • Archer- Nike identities

  • Reay- Psycho-social approach- Cleft habitus

  • Sullivan- students with higher cultural capital achieve higher

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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