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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Social and Cultural Capital"”.
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Beyond the Bootstrap: Social and Cultural Capital in Hispanic Entrepreneurship
… This qualitative study investigates the systemic and individual factors hindering the growth of these firms by exploring how founders strategically convert social and cultural capital to navigate the minority discount. Grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s framework of capital, the research utilizes 39 …
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Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience
This thesis explores the role of social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. It does so by gathering observations and post-festival accounts from attendees at three separate music festivals located in England. The data were analysed using Fairclough's approach to critical …
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Unveiling Career Aspirations: The Role of Human, Social, and Cultural Capital Among California Community College Classified Staff
… The professional development of classified staff and their motivation for administrative leadership roles remain a sparsely researched topic. An impending retirement wave among senior community college leadership raises an important question: Do classified staff aspire to move up? If so, what …
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Privilege and Discipline: An Exploration into the Role of Social and Cultural Capital in Cape Town ex-Model C Schools
… focusing on their disciplinary principles and the management of disciplinary processes. The research, grounded in theories of social control, labelling, and social capital, sought to uncover factors driving disciplinary actions and their outcomes specifically in these settings. Typically …
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Social and Cultural Capital Across Contexts: Mandarin-Speaking English Language Learning Children's First and Second Language Literacy Learning at Home, in the Community, and in Multiple Classrooms
… more effective in increasing ELLs' L2 linguistic capital due to her explicit instruction on literacy components, use of accommodated speech, and giving constructive feedback on the ELL children's writing. In contrast, the 4th grade and 5th grade mainstream teachers' literacy practices fell into …
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Why Did They Stay? A Mixed Methods Approach to Understand Student Persistence
… study utilizes Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural and social capital as a theoretical framework to understand student persistence. The research design is a mixed-methods approach, using data collected through the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire and interviews with select survey …
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TESTIMONIOS ON THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS’ HIGHER ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT: VENGO CON GANAS, SOLO ÉCHAME UNA MANO!
… self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, social and cultural capital, and similar heritage due to cultural values can positively influence and contribute to the success of English Language learners in academia.</p> <p>Through the mentorship relationship, students, particularly minority …
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The Value of a College Education: First-Generation College Students Perceptions at a Southeastern University
<p>Framed by social and cultural capital theory, the purpose of this research is to better understand how first-generation college students perceive the value of their college education and to examine whether students’ methods of preparation for life after college are positioning them for …
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LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT: BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGIANS IN WHITE SPACES
… inequality allows the stratification of access and success for college students from racialized and minoritized backgrounds. College success patterns for Black college students at historically white institutions tend to be lower than those of white students (Improving College Access and …
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Spheres of Influence: Understanding International School Choice in Malaysia
… at one international school in Kuala Lumpur, and consisted of both a survey and interviews. The study focused on parents’ own educational background and experiences, their expectations and motivations for selecting an international school, factors affecting school choice, and attitudes to …
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Learning to Care: Adult Education and Gendered Occupations
… concerns second chance education initiatives and gendered employment. The focus of the research is on women re-engaging in adult education who chose professional childcare as a vocational option. Childcare as a gendered, low pay, low status occupation yields poor rewards for women who have …
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The role of graduate recruitment in the employability agenda: a qualitative case study of undergraduate business education at a London Russell Group university
… module leaders, four university support staff and seven graduate recruiters, combined with secondary qualitative analysis of 26 National Student Survey responses, module specifications and other documents/ websites. At the time, graduate employment was increasingly being seen as the principal …
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Learning From the Hyphen: Cultural identity navigation in Coptic individuals living in the diaspora
… to identify with their Egyptian ethnicity and religious identity which results in the largest Christian group in North Africa who follow the Coptic Orthodox Church and their connection to the early pharaonic civilization (Brinkerhoff, 2015; Botros, 2006; Lozano, 2015). My research …
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Community capacity building : a role for neighbourhood houses in community revitalization
… about community fragmentation. By building social cohesion and revitalizing civic participation, community development is viewed by many as a remedy to offset the weakening of community ties. This thesis explores how a community agency- based worker might help a fragmented community …
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Migration, multilingualism and adaptation: language as social capital in a present-day Mexican ethnic enclave in the U.S.
… use was investigated within four business and translators there in. It aims to uncover valuable insight into the understanding of the specific linguistic use of the businesses within this enclave and how it may, or may not, be contributing to the language maintenance and language shifts of …
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The Impact of cultural and social capital on FTIC student persistence
Both cultural and social capital have been used in the existing literature to understand the differences in student persistence. Bourdieu's theories (1986, 1993, 1973), through their various applications, have provided evidence that the influence of social and cultural capital on student …
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Social antecedents and health consequences of productive activity
… of three empirical papers that investigate social antecedents and health consequences of productive activity. The ideas of productive activity and productive aging are the main concepts guiding the dissertation. The project is innovative by (a) testing how components of capital influence …
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Recruiting, Engaging, and Retaining Low Income Parents in Community Parenting Programs: A Phenomenological Study
… factors that impact recruitment, engagement, and retention of low-income parents in community parenting programs. Using a traditional qualitative phenomenological approach, this research sought to develop an understanding of the difficulties that program providers often encounter in engaging …
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