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Cultural Capital in the Wrong Currency
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Jennifer Wallace; Jennifer Feldman – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2022
The focus in this chapter is on the scholarship students' entry into the elite school field. Described by the participants as a "culture shock," this chapter details the scholarship recipients' initial response to the elite school field and their discovery that, despite them feeling that they had earned their place at the elite school by…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Scholarships, Selective Admission, Culture Conflict
School, Parents, and Communities: Leading Parallel Lives in a Two-Way Immersion Program
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Chaparro, Sofía – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
In addition to fostering bilingualism and biliteracy for all students, one of the main goals of Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programs is building positive cross-cultural relationships (). This can lead to TWI programs having ambitious goals for the kinds of bridges it can build between students, families, and communities, which is a challenge when the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingualism, Literacy, Educational Objectives
What Do Parents Say? Encouraging Parental Involvement across the Cultural Spectrum.
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DeMoss, Susan; Vaughn, Courtney – ERS Spectrum, 2000
Describes insights gleaned from informal conversations with 27 parents actively involved in their children's schooling. Stereotypes do not apply. Although wealthier white parents receive more encouragement to participate in decision making and school-related activities, they sometimes support working- class/minority causes and favor school…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Middle Class Parents, Minority Groups
Language and Class in Minority Education.
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Collins, James – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Examines the effects of linguistic and cultural diversity on the educational achievement of working class and minority students by reappraising the deficit/difference controversy of the 1960s and 1970s and examines how class and politics shape both cultural-linguistic and school-based assumptions about language and literacy. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Theorising Student Identity as Fragmented: Some Implications for Feminist Critical Pedagogy.
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Hird, Myra J. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Explores narratives given by a group of British students on their future career aspirations, attending particularly to diversity. Offers an analysis of the self that is highly fractured, and reveals that inner diversity may account for contradictory student narratives. Suggests implications for an alternative feminist critical pedagogy that…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cultural Differences, Feminism, Foreign Countries
Some Linguistic Consequences of a Working-Class Environment.
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Hawkins, P.R. – Te Reo: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 1969
This article reports the results of research carried out in London using five-year-old children of working class and middle class backgrounds. Speech samples were collected and compared on the basis of grammatical categories. It was discovered that working class children used more pronouns than their middle class counterparts in third person…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies, English, Environmental Influences