An exploration is presented of how urban spaces, polarized by class and ethnicity, structure the basic conditions of emerging local school markets. The authors investigate how the distribution of symbolic capital, or 'hot knowledge' of the market, affects schools, the market, and the urban spaces themselves. The study is guided by theoretical notions involving lived local school markets, competitive spaces and symbolic capital. Methodologically, the study is based on ethnographic fieldwork at three compulsory schools in Stockholm. Analytically, the ways in which relations among urban spaces and school choice, and actors' perceptions of these relations, affect the actors' subsequent positioning in the local market, are illustrated. The authors' main conclusion is that despite nationally defining principles mandating fairness, transparency and integration, school choice policy is being implemented on an uneven playing field, aggravating current patterns of segregation in education and even housing. Consequently, a call is made for an urgent reframing of some of the policy's nationally defining principles.
In recent years, research has brought attention to the heterogeneity of resources that first-generation students bring with them to higher education and the factors that assist in these students’ social and academic adjustment to university life. However, few studies have focused on how these students’ early socialization and experiences over the life course influence their adjustment experiences to university. Drawing on Bourdieu’s habitus concept to explore the life histories of first-generation students at a midranked Swedish university, we identify three types of adjustment profiles—Adjusters, Strangers, and Outsiders—and highlight five key factors over the life course that explain why they differ: family resources, early social environment, educational experiences and opportunities, peers, and partners. Our findings suggest that class-related adjustment challenges in college can be traced to different levels of cultural capital acquired during first-generation students’ early socialization but also to capital acquired through sustained contact with cultural capital–abundant social environments throughout their life course, resulting in subtle but consequential habitus adaptations. This study extends previous research in the field by exploring a broader set of social contexts that can spur first-generation students’ cultural capital acquisition before college and facilitate their adjustment to higher education.
Reflektionstexten utgår från ett undervisningsexempel där studenter engageras i undervisningen och kursens tematik via minnen och därmed övas i att utveckla ett professionellt omdöme. Det är ett undervisningsexempel hämtad från den egna undervisningspraktiken vid lärarutbildningen där värderingsövningar används som ett verktyg för att reflektera kring kursers tematik, närma sig litteraturen för kursen och fördjupa ett professionsomdöme. Även om reflektionen tar sin utgångspunkt i ett konkret undervisningsexempel hämtat från en specifik undervisningskontext, en kurs som ges inom lärarutbildningens utbildningsvetenskapliga kärna, kan övningen med stor sannolikhet och en smula fantasi anpassas för att kunna användas inom ett flertal andra professionsprogram vilket även diskuteras i textens avslutande del.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT
Value-based exercises as practical tools to increase professional judgementThis reflective text explores the importance of providing opportunities for students to develop a professional judgement and reflect on the theme of a course. Drawing on a teaching example from teacher education, the text discusses how using value- based exercises can become a tool to reflect on a theme and as an introduction to the literature in a course. These value-based exercises can also serve to develop a professional judgement. While the reflection is based on a specific teaching context, the final section of the text suggests that this exercise easily can be adapted for a use in a variety of other professional programs.
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