Capital, Culture and Community: Understanding School Engagement in a Challenging Context

Autor/inn/en	Gillies, Donald; Wilson, Alastair; Soden, Rebecca; Gray, Shirley; McQueen, Irene
Titel	Capital, Culture and Community: Understanding School Engagement in a Challenging Context
Quelle	In: Improving Schools, 13 (2010) 1, S.21-38 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1365-4802
DOI	10.1177/1365480209352548
Schlagwörter	Educational Practices; Cultural Differences; Academic Achievement; Learning Strategies; Disadvantaged Environment; Learner Engagement; Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Secondary Schools; School Support; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungspraxis; Kultureller Unterschied; Schulleistung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Sekundarschule; Schulförderverein
Abstract	Engagement in learning is seen as a key to success at school. The article reports on a study into the ways in which one school has attempted to engage with its community in an area of multiple deprivation. Using Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, the article explores the ways in which school management aims to boost students' embodied cultural capital as a means towards achieving academic success, and looks at the perceptions of key informants and school students on these issues. The report shows the considerable efforts schools in such areas need to expend, the economic challenges, and the difficulties and dilemmas which students often encounter in trying to negotiate the cultural divide between home and school. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10