Bourdieu's Theory of Education

Introduction

- Cultural Reproduction Model:

• Habitus: tastes, attributes of the individual.
• Field: cultural framework of a specific context.
• Cultural Capital: value of a person's cultural knowledge within a field.

Education as Cultural Reproduction

- Middle-class habitus is given symbolic capital.

- Teachers and headteachers are middle classes.

- Those that write the curriculum and policies are middle class.

- The working class…