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Cultural Capital, Equality and Diversifying Education

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The chapter analyses the significance of cultural capital for a social and cultural inheritance of education in the context of diversifying education. It gives the holistic picture of the state of equity and equality of education in the Finnish educational system and policy by analysing the mechanisms of educational selection at different educational levels, from primary to higher education. The chapter examines the origins of the concept of ‘cultural capital’ by Pierre Bourdieu, after which the significance of cultural capital on the social reproduction and social inheritance of education is examined by taking into account the recent changes in both policy practices and institutional arrangements in comprehensive, upper secondary and higher education.

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    While we are conscious of the fact that early childhood education has also been strongly affected by neo-liberal welfare and educational policies, we leave it outside our examination due to the limited space of the chapter.

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Berisha, AK., Rinne, R., Järvinen, T., Kinnari, H. (2017). Cultural Capital, Equality and Diversifying Education. In: Kantasalmi, K., Holm, G. (eds) The State, Schooling and Identity. Education Dialogues with/in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1515-1_8

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