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The Translation of Cultural Capital Theory to English Secondary Schools: Knuggets, Wild Words and Pipelines
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Sally Riordan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Much cultural capital research has accumulated since its inception in the 1970s and researchers have charted the corresponding development of cultural capital theory in academic communities. This empirical study takes the further step of offering an account of cultural capital as it is interpreted in schools. This 'interventionalist account' is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum
Denial, Opposition, Rejection or Dissent: Why Do Teachers Contest Research Evidence?
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Cain, Tim – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Internationally, efforts are being made for educational practice to be research-informed on the grounds that schoolteachers will implement what research shows will "work". However, teachers do not necessarily accept research findings; sometimes they contest them. This article considers teachers' contestation in two empirical studies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Evidence, Research Utilization
A Call for a More Measured Approach to Reporting and Interpreting PISA Results
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Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Educational Researcher, 2016
In the current article, we consider the influential position of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and discuss several methodological areas that demonstrate the need for caution when using and interpreting PISA results. We motivate our argument by briefly describing the program's increased influence in educational policy…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Outcome Measures, Data Interpretation, Research Reports