What can bourdieu's cultural capital add to your understanding of context?

What can Bourdieu's Cultural Capital add to your understanding of context?

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We may know that, when your economic background is high is usual to have people with more knowledge rather than the people with a low one, which can variate, but it is often the case in real life. Bourdieu talks about this as “cultural capital” and explains what it is involved in this “process”.

        Bourdieu says: “the children of what he calls the “dominant class” are crucially advantaged over the children of subordinate classes in that they enter the educational system already well prepared to succeed within it.” (Goldthorpe, 2007), which leads us to understand that rich people (children) are more prepared to enter a school and finish it successfully, when in the other hand we have the ones with low resources which barely do it to elementary school because of their context, often these children end up in the streets asking for money. But can this be changed?

        The concept of “cultural capital” can help to have a better understanding and comprehend more the “context” we can have with our students with the different types of social-economic backgrounds these children can come from and how to handle the differences we may see. One important thing is when the teacher gets to know the cultural capital of their students and can appreciate a big difference between the students, it is important to educate them to share, all that knowledge their classmates may not know and make them feel a good sensation to be sharing. With that, the context allows us to guide our teaching methods to a way the students with a higher cultural capital, to be able to share it and maybe be second hand for the teacher, using their knowledge to encourage and show the correct way, as Bourdieu says, there are different types of acquiring the cultural capital and also different types of knowledge, which can be objective, embodied and institutionalized.

        The economic gap is always going to be an obstacle for education, mainly in the public one, but it is possible to take advantage of, teaching the students to share and to self-learn.

References:

Goldthorpe, J. (2007). “Cultural Capital”: Some Critical Observations. Rivisteweb. https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.2383/24755

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