ERIC Number: EJ952861
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 20
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Dress Rehearsal: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Body Work in Career Portfolio Programs
Collin, Ross
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v32 n5 p785-804 2011
This article examines how career portfolio programs at two secondary schools establish corporeal regimes. Both programs require students to compose portfolios that plot their trajectories through school and into paid work. Prior to graduation, students defend their portfolios before panels of educators and businesspeople. Employing the Bourdieusian concepts of capital and habitus, this article investigates how these programs set up systems that value certain kinds of bodies. Further, it examines how students negotiate these systems and display different kinds of bodies in different kinds of ways. Ultimately, it is argued these disparate bodily performances are read by authorities as indicators of the types of paths students are travelling or should travel into the future. (Contains 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Secondary Schools, Career Development, Interviews, Career Planning, Dress Codes, Social Studies, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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