July 12...Anyon Chapter 5: Perez (this is a complement to the podcast created by Josh, Melissa and Kyle)
Perez used Bourdieu's ideas about social and cultural capital to describe the contextual factors that impact access to school choice by a group of parents. How might social capital and cultural capital impact a problem within your area of the discipline?
Very simple, my work involves determining how different groups differentially conceptualize target concepts within self-report surveys. Social capital and cultural capital are significant driving forces that perpetuate conceptual disparities in a large number of concepts, such as attitudes, motivation, and, honestly, just about anything most educational researchers care about.
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Cassandra
DeleteI am interested in social capital particularly in looking at African American families and their ability to be engaged in the school process. I would be interested in reading any paper you publish on this Morgan to help me get a full understanding of self report surveys and conceptual disparities.
Ashlee:
ReplyDeleteMy interests consist of understanding students' out of school spaces and how these contexts impact their motivation, development, and academic achievement. In my research thus far, these contexts have included communities and families as well as after school programs. Similar to Perez's ideas about how social and cultural capital impact parental access to school choice, social and cultural capital also play a large role in student engagement in after school programming. Parental willingness and motivation to engage in their communities is impacted by social and cultural capital, and also is a factor that has been found to affect student engagement in communities and programs. Additionally, students' conceptualization of their own social and cultural capital can impact their motivation to participate in programming. Beyond engagement in programs, students' identities and development are informed by their social and cultural capital. Thus, if I am seeking to understand srudents within their various contexts then this is a factor that I must also consider.
Virginia here:
ReplyDeleteBourdieu's ideas about social and cultural capital are relevant to my research interests and much of what this group discussed on their podcast can be applied to my area of research. I am interested in training and teaching pre- and inservice educators on how to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students through equity pedagogies and multicultural competence and also studying the educational experiences of these students. These students are by no means culturally deficit, but the dominant culture in schools often leads teachers, administrators, and their peers to think so. CLD students can experience difficultly navigating the educational system without knowledge of the dominant culture or having a social network to guide them through it. Even if Bourdieu's ideas were formed based on the culture in France, I think his ideas are still relevant and useful in understanding the school experiences of students in the U.S. today.
Jen U:
ReplyDeleteSocial and cultural capital play out frequently in higher education. I'm particularly interested in racial justice oriented and trauma informed responses to gender-based violence; social and cultural capital affect these. Student survivors have to navigate a lot of systems, both internal and external to the university, and these systems were created and are maintained by dominant culture. Students of color (especially those at primarily white institutions), LGBTQ students, first-generation students, etc face challenges and barriers when they navigate those systems because they often do not have the social and cultural capital that is deemed "correct" by the white supremacy based dominant culture. Trauma makes that even more difficult. This is why culturally relevant campus-based advocacy services are so critical - vulnerable and marginalized students need additional help and support when they navigate these systems. Structural changes also need to be made so that everyone's social and cultural capital is accepted - but that is a long term process. Student survivors need support while people are also trying to change the system.