As everyone else, I really enjoyed Brie's presentation on the distinct forms of capital. Her football field analogy made this concept really comprehensible. I particularly was comforted by the notion that the forms of capital seem to overlap with each other. For instance, how forms of social capital could also be considered economic capital. I believe Brie spoke about the example regarding the expensive painting....
I also think my small group had a thorough, enlightening discussion on capital as well... We covered so many aspects related to this topic. We ruminated about how different children have distinct ideas on what "capital" they wish to obtain... We also discussed about how we may want our students to acquire as much cultural capital as possible, but that sometimes their wishes do not coincide with ours... Also, Marilee and Robyn brought up the notion that sometimes "reduced forms of capital" are all they know/ are familiar with... It is due to this that some children may be content with working in blue collar type jobs such as being a food server in Dunkin Donuts... I closed the discussion by saying that it is an unfair life for some students who cannot obtain sufficient cultural capital or education due to specific circumstances, such as being undocumented immigrants, because they might be the next greats or geniuses of our generation.
Clearly, cultural capital is a notion that we should all be thinking about as we enter the world of teaching, regardless of the age group we will be working with.
Sincerely,
Maria Valarezo
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