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dc.contributor.authorLane, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-04T19:07:08Z
dc.date.available2012-07-04T19:07:08Z
dc.date.issued2012-07-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/4023
dc.description.abstractThis study used a life history research design to explore first-generation university students' educational life stories and experiences with cultural capital. The project sought to examine how 3 first-generation university students experience cultural capital that is privileged in Ontario's education system and how the interactions between capital acquired through experiences within the home and school and capital privileged by the education system affect these students' educational experiences and perceptions. Using Pierre Bourdieu's (1984; 1986) theory of cultural capital as a framework, 3 firstgeneration, first-year university students participated in two 1- to 2-hour interviews. A focus on each participant's experiences with culture, capital, and education revealed themes corresponding to navigating, utilizing, and confronting familial, institutional, economic, and embodied forms of cultural capital. The study highlights the importance of recognizing how cultural capital influences the education system and how firstgeneration students can recreate normative pathways and achieve academic success despite challenges posed by the cultural capital privileged within the education system. Given cultural capital's effect on academic success, understanding first-generation students' educational life stories sheds light on the complex challenges facing students who confront and deal with privileged culture in the education system.en_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectFirst-generation college students -- Ontarioen_US
dc.subjectEducation, Higher -- Social aspects -- Ontarioen_US
dc.titleExperiences with cultural capital in education : exploring the educational life stories of first-generation postsecondary studentsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameMaster of Educationen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Educationen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Educationen_US
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