Abstract

Ofsted, the inspection authority in England, has told schools to ensure that all students have access to cultural capital, taken as a canon of music, literature and art. In this paper, we trouble this guidance by analysing conversations with 1447 senior secondary students. The students reported that the arts offered considerable personal benefits, as well as creative self-expression (visual art) and vocational and networking skills (performing arts). By bringing Bourdieu to the dataset we offer a field analysis that shows how arts cultural capitals might follow the logics of the education field. We speculate that, despite the likelihood that these elite cultural capitals were not of equal value to all students, arts capitals and dispositions might support wider resistances to logics of practice in other fields.

摘要

英国教育标准局 (Ofsted) 已告知学校确保所有学生都能获得文化资本，这被视为音乐、文学和艺术的经典。在本文中，我们通过分析与 1447 名高中生的对话来解决这一指导问题。学生们报告说，艺术提供了可观的个人利益，以及创造性的自我表达（视觉艺术）和职业和网络技能（表演艺术）。通过将 Bourdieu 引入数据集，我们提供了一个现场分析，展示了艺术文化资本如何遵循教育领域的逻辑。我们推测，尽管这些精英文化资本对所有学生的价值可能并不相同，但艺术资本和倾向可能会支持对其他领域实践逻辑的更广泛抵制。