{"id":297,"date":"2023-02-25T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/esw-ijelt\/?p=297"},"modified":"2023-02-25T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T13:56:35","slug":"latest-article-higher-education-social-mobility-and-social-class-importance-of-habitus-and-capitals-when-analysing-student-choice-and-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ijelt\/2023\/02\/25\/latest-article-higher-education-social-mobility-and-social-class-importance-of-habitus-and-capitals-when-analysing-student-choice-and-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest article-Higher Education, Social Mobility and Social Class: Importance of Habitus and Capitals when Analysing Student Choice and Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><br \/>\nSchofield, L. M., Takriti, R., &amp; Atkinson, S. (2023). Higher Education, Social Mobility and Social Class: Importance of Habitus and Capitals when Analysing Student Choice<br \/>\nand Transitions. International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 2(1): 6, pp. 1\u201314. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/ ijelt.45<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Vodcast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Dr Schofield\u2019s providing an overview of the article here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ijelt\/esw-ijelt\/files\/2023\/02\/IMG_3062.mov\">IMG_3062<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Transcript of the vodcast\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nExtensive literature spanning decades articulates the complexities for young people from \u2018lower socioeconomic communities\u2019 in the decision-making process surrounding education \u2013 possibly highlighting how Widening Participation policy and practice, is not necessarily reducing socioeconomic inequalities, and contributing to social mobility. Arguing for the crucial role of cultural, social, and economic capital to be considered in educational policy-making, this paper examines the educational and transitional experiences of students from lower socioeconomic communities within the United Kingdom, moving to Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a way to unravel the complexities that surround movement from further education to higher education in the UK context this paper works with Bourdieu\u2019s conceptual toolkit (habitus, agency, and capitals) to operationalize focus group data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the use of focus groups, the research suggests that despite governmental optimism and policy the presence of anxiety and fear in young people from lower socioeconomic communities, in applying to HE, is multifaceted. This article highlights that despite students demonstrating a determination and aspiration in the transition from FE to HE, the idea of \u2018choice\u2019 remains widely problematic for the under-represented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As such, the paper urges educators and policy-makers to rethink the complexities of choice concerning student transitions when opportunities in terms of life trajectories remain governed by social class boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TCELT Research Seminar based on this article \u00a0https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/events\/tcelt-research-seminar-march-2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference Schofield, L. M., Takriti, R., &amp; Atkinson, S. (2023). Higher Education, Social Mobility and Social Class: Importance of Habitus and Capitals when Analysing Student Choice and Transitions. International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 2(1): 6, pp. 1\u201314. 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