The Capacity to Aspire to Higher Education: "It's like Making Them Do a Play without a Script"

Autor/in	Bok, Jessica
Titel	The Capacity to Aspire to Higher Education: "It's like Making Them Do a Play without a Script"
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 51 (2010) 2, S.163-178 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Academic Aspiration; Socioeconomic Status; Ability; Cultural Capital; Cultural Background; Educational Attitudes; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Parent Influence; Elementary School Students; Principals; School Counselors; Elementary School Teachers; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Principal; Schulleiter; School counselor; Beratungslehrer; Pädagogischer Berater; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Aspiration is currently a prominent concept in higher education policy debates. However, reference to this concept is often made in terms of low socio-economic status (SES) students simply lacking aspiration, which schools and universities must work to instill. In contrast to this potentially deficit view, this paper draws on Appadurai's notion of the "capacity to aspire", which reframes aspiration as a cultural category rather than an individual motivational trait. It discusses the proposition that low SES students "do" have substantive aspirations, but may have less developed capacities to realise them. Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital, habitus and field provide a supplementary theoretical framework, which draws attention to the complex relationships between socio-cultural background and life-world experiences that inform students' and families' dispositions toward school and their capacities to aspire to higher education. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table, and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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