‘Cultural capital in the wrong currency’: the reflective accounts of scholarship students attending elite secondary schools

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dc.contributor.authorFeldman, Jenniferen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWallace, Jenniferen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-08T13:47:28Z
dc.date.available2022-11-08T13:47:28Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-21
dc.descriptionCITATION: Feldman & Jennifer Wallace (2021): ‘Cultural capital in the wrong currency’: the reflective accounts of scholarship students attending elite secondary schools, International Studies in Sociology of Education, doi: 10.1080/09620214.2021.1956996en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at: tandfonline.comen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of a sample of former scholarship recipients who reflect back on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and symbolic violence to explain the interviewees’ experiences in the elite school space, the article shows that in the educational setting of post-apartheid South Africa, success in one part of an educational field does not necessarily equate to success in another. Further, providing students with the financial means to access elite education does not mean that they enter into the school contexts as ‘equal players’. As such, what the article highlights, is that the acceptance of a scholarship for students from historically disadvantaged communities, is far more complex and multi-layered than is anticipated by all stakeholders.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher’s versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent35 Pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFeldman & Jennifer Wallace (2021): ‘Cultural capital in the wrong currency’: the reflective accounts of scholarship students attending elite secondary schools, International Studies in Sociology of Education, doi: 10.1080/09620214.2021.1956996en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0962-0214 (Print)en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1747-5066 (Online)en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi: 10.1080/09620214.2021.1956996en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125791
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectScholarship programmesen_ZA
dc.subjectElite schoolsen_ZA
dc.subjectCultural capitalen_ZA
dc.subjectSymbolic violenceen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African schoolingen_ZA
dc.title‘Cultural capital in the wrong currency’: the reflective accounts of scholarship students attending elite secondary schoolsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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