EDUC1029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tangled, Meritocracy, Implicit Learning
Week 2 Lecture – Bourdieu and Cultural Capital
Education:
• Promotion of equality
• Not distributed randomly along population
• Lower SES in general find it hard for success
• Best chance to succeed in school and life
Myth of Meritocracy:
• Outcomes often attributed to hard work (other aspects that contribute to outcome
being sex, race, economic status)
• Because of talent, ability, effort or lack of
• Intelligence + effort = merit
Explanation:
• Margialise or silee the oies of othered groups
• Interpretations of a historical even can differ greatly (Australia Day or Invasion Day)
• Contested view of what is important
• Has ee hose as the priileged a – often alternative ways of seeing the world
• Biased view of schooling
• Knowledge is seleted ad legitiised as the real koledge that deteried
academic success
• To do with who has power within society – get to choose what the represented in
the schools
Shools ‘ole:
• Role in reproducing own dominance
• Advantage and disadvantage
• Culture of dominate group born in school – others born into it
• Cultural Capital – epicentre of course
• Bourdieu (French) – thinking tools
Thinking Tools:
• Field
• Habitus
• Capital(s)
• Practice
• Field, capital (s), habitus and practice: interdependent, co-ostruted, tagled
together – speak to each other and inform each sphere
Field:
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Document Summary
Week 2 lecture bourdieu and cultural capital. Education: promotion of equality, not distributed randomly along population, lower ses in general find it hard for success, best chance to succeed in school and life. Myth of meritocracy: outcomes often attributed to hard work (other aspects that contribute to outcome being sex, race, economic status, because of talent, ability, effort or lack of. S(cid:272)hool(cid:859)s ole: role in reproducing own dominance, advantage and disadvantage, culture of dominate group born in school others born into it, cultural capital epicentre of course, bourdieu (french) thinking tools. Thinking tools: field, habitus, capital(s, practice, field, capital (s), habitus and practice: interdependent, co-(cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted, (cid:858)ta(cid:374)gled together(cid:859) speak to each other and inform each sphere. Field: who dominate and who are dominated, education in the field that the future is formed, power of who gets to say what, makes it more difficult for them to succeed, power, gender and educational fields.
