Riordan, Sally;
(2024)
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines.
British Journal of Sociology of Education
10.1080/01425692.2024.2376592.
(In press).
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Abstract
Much cultural capital research has accumulated since its inception in the 1970s and researchers have charted the corresponding development of cultural capital theory in academic communities. This empirical study takes the further step of offering an account of cultural capital as it is interpreted in schools. This ‘interventionalist account’ is based on classifications of practices that had been explicitly implemented at 14 secondary schools in England in order to give students access to cultural capital. The collection of cultural capital practices was compiled from 38 interviews with senior leaders, teachers, and support staff. Practitioners justifiably believed these practices to be supported by research evidence. It was found, however, that a wide variety of cultural capital practices exist in schools today, with limited support from research evidence and theory. I discuss how the ‘evidence pipeline’ has broken down in this case and is sometimes an inappropriate metaphor for conceptualising research dissemination.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01425692.2024.2376592 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2376592 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | evidence-based education, research dissemination, socio-economic disadvantages |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194527 |
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