This thesis is concerned with a group of Chinese skilled migrant mothers’ experiences in relation to their children’s early childhood care and education in New Zealand. Utilising Bourdieu’s concept of capital, habitus and field, the current research addresses the complexity and ambiguity of the Chinese migrant mothers' lives whose social position transcends multiple fields. Because their children attend mainstream education, and the local educational system is different from those where the migrant mothers were brought up, the migrant mothers had to transcend different cultural fields. Chinese skilled migrants, who were middle class professionals in their native country, usually experienced social and financial downturns in New Zealand. Although skilled, the migrant mothers encountered difficulties in finding paid employment that matched their pre-migration job status. These mothers were more likely to give up paid work or reduce paid working hours on the birth of their children than were their male partners. The current study focuses on these transcendent experiences, encompassing both embeddedness and ambiguity across different fields by examining the interplay of class, gender, and ethnicity in the daily lives of these mothers. Traditional interpretations of cultural capital usually refer only to dominant social and cultural capital, whereas the current thesis expands the concept to include both dominant and non-dominant forms of social and cultural capital. The findings showed that the migrant mothers redefined and reconstructed the concept of capital. The migrant mothers’ attitude towards mainstream education was ambiguous and complex: covering the full spectrum from willing embracing, reluctantly following, selectively utilising to firmly rejecting. Simultaneously, the mothers promoted, criticised, and rejected various traditional Chinese practices and beliefs in order to maximise benefits for their children.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 79 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).

Επιχειρείται η διερεύνηση των αντιλήψεων και των πρακτικών των διευθυντών δημοτικών σχολείων σε σχέση με την ηγεσία της σχολικής μονάδας, καθώς και του "κεφαλαίου" που φέρουν για να ανταπεξέρθουν στις απαιτήσεις του έργου τους. Χρησιμοποιείται η θεωρία του Bourdieu και η μέθοδος της ημιδομημένης συνέντευξης. Διαπιστώνεται μία τάση προς την επιλογή συγκεντρωτικών και κατευθυντικών πρακτικών απο τους διευθυντές. Επίσης διαπιστώνεται η αξιοποίηση του πολιτισμικού και του κοινωνικού τους κεφαλαίου με αποτελέσματα που ωφελούν αφενός τις σχολικές μονάδες που διευθύνουν, αφετέρου τους ίδιους προσωπικά. / The research is focused on the descriptions of the beliefs of school principals concerning leadership in primary education, their cooperation practices with the members of the school society and the skills they employ to cope with their professional demands

As políticas públicas de desenvolvimento e distribuição de renda levadas a efeito durante a primeira década do nosso século alteraram os patamares de renda da parcela mais pobre da população brasileira, fenômeno que estaria dando origem àquilo que se passou a chamar de nova classe média brasileira. A redução das desigualdades sociais estaria atrelada, assim, a um processo de mobilidade social. Esse estudo se ocupa desse fenômeno. Para isso, apresenta, inicialmente, uma análise das políticas sociais implementadas, a partir de 2003, nos âmbitos econômico e educacional. A seguir, discute os conceitos de classe social e de mobilidade social, optando por considerar o fenômeno à luz do conceito de capital cultural, de Pierre Bourdieu, com o qual se define o traço distintivo da educação superior como marca da classe média. Assim, propôs-se a investigar a emergência desse traço em universitários oriundos de classes populares, que estariam em processo de mobilidade social. O trabalho de campo, que ouviu 35 estudantes de 16 diferentes cursos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, em metodologia de caráter qualitativo, permitiu verificar que os alunos entrevistados mantém seu perfil original de classe trabalhadora, embora sejam inequívocos os ganhos da realização do curso superior, em termos de realização própria e de perspectivas de futuro, tanto para o estudante quanto para o seu grupo social, o que aponta para uma alteração do perfil da classe trabalhadora, e não para a emergência de uma nova classe média. / Public policies aimed at promoting development and income distribution carried out during the first decade of the current century changed the income levels of the poorest segment of the population, a phenomenon that could explain the rise of what became known as the new Brazilian middle class. Therefore, the reduction of social inequalities could be linked to a process of social mobility. This study addresses this issue. It starts with an analysis of social policies implemented since 2003 in the economic and educational spheres. Next, social concepts of class and social mobility are discussed in light of Pierre Bourdieus cultural capital concept, which allows defining higher education as the peculiarity of the middle class. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the emergence of this trait among college students from lower classes who were undergoing a process of social mobility. A qualitative survey conducted with 35 students from 16 different courses at the Rio de Janeiro State University showed that students maintained their original working class profile, although the benefits of a higher education were unequivocal in terms of self-fulfillment and future prospects for both the students and their social class. Thus, results of this study suggest changes in the working class profile, and not to the emergence of a new middle class.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2687.pdf: 1197410 bytes, checksum: d42017b998fceb7fa9c419a0df171a1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-14 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This study analyzes the educational trajectory of six students which are matriculated in the Professional Secondary Grade School and in the University Course offered by National Program of Agrarian Reform (Pronera), associated with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Assentados, Acampados e Quilombolas (Ceta) and the University of State of Bahia (Uneb). The purpose of this research was to identify what dispositions were assimilated by the students and, consequently, to analyze the relations among their attitude and the earned knowledge and their compromise with Ceta of returning to the camps. The analysis of scholar trajectory is founded on interviews with the students matriculated in the courses of Sustainable Agriculture and Land Pedagogy. The interviews were distributed in groups according to social and economic reality of the students families and then analyzed. In the first moment it was obtained information about the Agrarian Reform on Brazil and the identification of Ceta s Movement on the Regional do Médio São Francisco, where the interviewed students live. The research describes this student s scholar trajectory from the beginning of education process, when they were taught to read and write, to the end of Middle School and the University Study and their expectation about the future. This research is based on the studies of Pierre Bourdieu and his coworkers, who explained the mechanism of strategies of social and cultural reproduction in some social structures, where groups or social classes fight against each other for cultural capital in order to grant reproduction and survival for their progeny or social group. Other studies in the same direction affirm that in situations where the economic conditions are unfavorable to education process, other aspects, mainly the non-scholar aspects, can be identified as successful if it is considered the social environment, the familiar mobilization and the kind of social and scholar trajectory, among other factors. Consequently it was examined this students trajectory, based on their testimonials, analyzing their families cultural capital, social capital and economic capital, their cultivated habitus in the inner of families, their relationship with the Ceta s Movement, the restructuring of their practices and cultural patrimony along the course. The main purpose of this study could be summarized as describing the scholar trajectory of six students, who were raised on popular sectors of open country, who are living a reality replete of subjective expectations of scholar success, in spite of objective possibilities of interruptions and of been repentant in school. Besides, there is a conflict in the inner of mobilization of social movements, where it is fought for ascending or descending positions on the exigency and collective efforts to the access to resources of Agrarian Reform, especially from National Program of Agrarian Reform (Pronera), for a gratuitous and great quality public open country education. / Este estudo analisa a trajetória educacional de seis alunos que estudam nos cursos de Ensino Médio Profissionalizante e Ensino Superior oferecidos pelo Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária Pronera em parceria com O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Assentados, Acampados e Quilombolas Ceta e a Universidade do Estado da Bahia - Uneb. Isso posto, a pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar as disposições que foram assimiladas por esses alunos e, consequentemente, analisar as relações entre esta atitude e os conhecimentos adquiridos no retorno dos alunos aos assentamentos e ao Movimento Ceta. À análise das trajetórias escolares está baseada em entrevistas realizadas com os alunos dos cursos em Agropecuária Sustentável e de Pedagogia da Terra. Essas entrevistas foram agrupadas e analisadas em relação às realidades sócio econômicas das famílias dos alunos entrevistados nos assentamentos. Primeiro foi levantado os dados sobre a reforma agrária no Brasil e a identificação do Movimento Ceta na Regional do Médio São Francisco onde residem os alunos entrevistados. O trabalho de pesquisa descreve a trajetória escolar dos alunos, desde o início de sua escolarização até a finalização do curso do Ensino Médio e Ensino Superior e de suas pretensões escolares no futuro. Esta pesquisa está pautada na obra de Pierre Bourdieu e colaboradores, que tratam de explicar os mecanismos das estratégias de reprodução social e reprodução cultural em uma determinada estrutura social, onde os grupos ou classes sociais lutam também pela posse do capital cultural, como forma de garantir a reprodução e sobrevivência de sua prole ou do seu grupo social. Estudos nesta direção apontam que em situações onde as condições econômicas são desfavoráveis à escolarização, pode-se identificar um relativo êxito no Ensino Fundamental, Médio e Superior, quando se leva em consideração outros fatores não propriamente escolares tais como a mobilização familiar, o ambiente social e o tipo de trajetória social e escolar, entre outros fatores. Em seguida, buscamos as trajetórias desses alunos, a partir dos seus depoimentos, ao analisar o capital cultural, capital social e capital econômico de suas famílias, o habitus cultivado no interior das famílias, das suas relações com o movimento Ceta, a reestruturação de suas práticas ao longo dos cursos e a reestruturação do patrimônio cultural dos alunos no interior do curso. Em suma, a pretensão nesse trabalho resume-se em escrever a trajetória escolar desses seis alunos, oriundos dos setores populares no campo, diante de uma realidade repleta de esperança subjetiva de sucesso escolar, mas perpassada por possibilidades objetivas de interrupções e repetências na escola, e que no bojo da mobilização dos movimentos sociais, se trava uma luta de posição de ascendência ou descendência na exigência e reivindicação coletiva no acesso aos recursos da Reforma Agrária, particularmente do Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária - Pronera, para uma educação do campo pública, gratuita e de qualidade.

abstract: Established in 1983 by the College Board, the National Hispanic Recognition Program annually recognizes approximately 3,300 Hispanic students who scored the highest on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). These top-performing high school students are recruited by U.S. universities as National Hispanic Scholars with the offer of scholarships. Few studies have been conducted in the past 20 years about National Hispanic Scholars; and none have investigated the role of the scholars' parents in their children's academic success. The purpose of this study was to address the gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive view of the scholar-parent relationship across low-income and high-income categories. The focus was on exploring differences and similarities, according to income, between the scholar-parent relationships and the scholars' negotiation of scholarship achievement and their first-year university experience. The research question was "What are the experiences of low-income and high-income National Hispanic Scholars and the experiences of their parents from the students' childhood academic achievement through their early collegiate maturation?" Topical life history was the research methodology utilized to explore the students' academic progression. Eighteen interviews were conducted, including nine student-parent pairs. The students were asked to include the parent they felt was most influential in their decision to go to college; all students chose their mother. Interviews were conducted utilizing an interview protocol; however, participants were given opportunities to fully explain their responses. Drawing from the recorded and transcribed interviews, the researcher developed narratives for each scholar and analyzed data according to existing literature. Five thematic data categories--academic progression, racial identity, scholarship award, early collegiate maturation process, and matriarchal/ child relationship progression--were further analyzed between and across income groups. The study's major finding was that parents intentionally placed the scholars in schools or facilitated strategic circumstances that would ensure their children's academic success. Parental navigation of their children's academic activities--termed "positioning"--was present in the scholars' lives from their earliest years, and findings indicate the activity contributed to the students' becoming recipients of the National Hispanic Scholars award. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Higher and Postsecondary Education 2010

Esta pesquisa tem como tema central as narrativas dos egressos do Programa de Ações Afirmativas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), suas trajetórias sociais, a possibilidade de construção do conhecimento e a reconversão do capital cultural e habitus, a partir de uma ótica bourdiana. Buscou-se investigar, a partir de suas memórias, como foram as experiências desses alunos no programa institucionalizado desde 2007, que estabeleceu o sistema de cotas através de ingresso por reserva de vagas para acesso a todos os cursos de graduação na UFRGS. O referido programa passou por um processo avaliativo em 2012, sendo a Política de Cotas renovada por mais dez anos. Também em 2012 foi sancionada a Lei nº 12.711/2012, que garantiu que 50% das vagas em cursos de graduação das Universidades Federais fossem reservadas aos candidatos cotistas até 2016. A pesquisa abrangeu o período de ingresso dos cotistas entre 2008 e 2012. O percurso teórico teve como foco a memória social e as categorias de habitus, classe e capital cultural de Pierre Bourdieu. Realizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a temática da pesquisa, levando-se em consideração o período de 2010 a 2015 em três diferentes Bases de Dados. Os resultados demonstraram o ineditismo do estudo quanto à abordagem dos egressos e suas narrativas de memória. O percurso metodológico utilizado foi o de uma pesquisa quantitativa e qualitativa, do tipo bibliográfica, documental e exploratória, a partir da história oral. Foram enviados questionários on-line para todo o universo de diplomados, contudo a amostra dessa pesquisa se concentrou em 155 questionários. Também foram realizadas entrevistas temáticas com dez egressos do programa. Os dados obtidos foram analisados e interpretados a partir de gráficos e da técnica de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados da pesquisa revelam que a experiência vivida pelos alunos cotistas nessa amostra proporcionou uma ressignificação no seu capital cultural e habitus. Os dados dos questionários e das entrevistas evidenciaram que o Programa de Ações Afirmativas da UFRGS é uma política de educação inclusiva positiva e apresentou avanços significativos no que se refere às relações étnico-raciais no ambiente universitário e que a participação no Programa foi uma oportunidade muito importante para esses alunos, repercutindo na sua trajetória social. O produto dessa pesquisa ficou sistematizado no vídeo intitulado “As vozes dos Cotistas Egressos da UFRGS”. / The central theme of this research are the narratives of graduate students from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul who participated in the Affirmative Action Programme. Guided by a Bourdieusian perspective, we also focus on social trajectories, knowledge construction and the reconversion of cultural capital and habitus. Through their memories, we set out to examine the experiences of these students within the institutionalized Programme that was established in 2007 and sanctioned a quota system through which candidates were granted admission to this university into reserved places. The Affirmative Action Programme was reassessed in 2012 and the Quota Policy was renewed for 10 more years. In the same year, Federal Law n° 12.71/2012 was sanctioned, guaranteeing that 50% of all places at the undergraduate level in federal universities be reserved for ‘quota candidates’ until 2016. The time period chosen for our research on 'quota student' admission spans 4 years, between 2008 and 2012. Our theoretical framework was anchored by the concept of social memory, as well as the Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, class and cultural capital. In three data bases, a literary review was carried out concerning the topic of our research, in publications issued between 2010 and 2015. Results showed the novelty of our particular focus on graduate students and memory narrative. Regarding our methodology, which is applied to oral history, we developed research that is both quantitative and qualitative, of the bibliographic, documentary and exploratory type. Online questionnaires were sent to all graduates with diplomas, and samples from 155 of these participants were collected, along with 10 theme-centred interviews. The obtained data was analyzed and interpreted in accordance with graphs and the technique of content analysis. The results of our research show that the experiences of this sample of ‘quota students’ provided for a resignification of their cultural capital and habitus. Our research data show that the graduates perceive the Affirmative Action Programme at UFRGS as a positive inclusive education policy as well as an advance in ethnic and racial relations in the university environment. Additionally, we observed that these graduates seem to consider their participation in the Programme as a significantly important opportunity which has influenced their social trajectory. The final product of our study was systemized in a video entitled "The Voices of Quota Graduates from UFRGS".

O presente estudo tem por objetivo compreender o consumo de marcas icônicas globais por consumidores de alto poder econômico e baixo capital cultural, em um contexto de país em desenvolvimento. O consumo de marcas icônicas globais auxilia os indivíduos a construir e a sinalizar sua identidade social. O uso e a forma de apropriação de marcas icônicas globais, no contexto brasileiro, atuam como um mecanismo empregado para demarcar uma posição favorável dentro da hierarquia social e gerar distinção entre indivíduos e grupos sociais. Especificamente, buscou-se analisar e compreender os discursos empregados pelas consumidoras para significar, enquadrar, justificar e legitimar o consumo dessas marcas. A pesquisa tem caráter qualitativo e descritivo e foi realizada por meio de entrevistas em profundidade e de observação com vinte e uma mulheres de alto poder econômico e baixo capital cultural. Como resultados desta pesquisa, com base nas distintas narrativas identificadas, categorizou-se os discursos das consumidoras de marcas icônicas globais em quatro grupos. As utilitárias verbalizam que consomem pelos benefícios funcionais, não admitindo consumir o simbolismo. As racionais revelam que alcançam o prazer individual, mas descartam o consumo exibicionista. As ascendentes consomem como fonte de prazer individual e pelo simbolismo do prestígio alcançado por conta da ascensão profissional e social. Por fim, as exibicionistas consomem prioritariamente o valor simbólico do prestígio a fim de sinalizar a diferenciação social perante os demais e pares. Além disso, verificou-se que as consumidoras são fortemente impactadas pela cultura global do consumo, emulando o consumo de países desenvolvidos e, similarmente, o da elite brasileira. Esta pesquisa adiciona nuances à análise do consumo de tais marcas dentro do estrato de alto poder econômico e baixo capital cultural, superando a análise binária de alto e baixo capital cultural de estudos anteriores, identificando e classificando quatro diferentes tipos de narrativas quanto a práticas e significados vinculados ao consumo dessas marcas. / The present study aims to understand the consumption of global iconic brands by consumers with high economic power and low cultural capital, in a developing country context. The consumption of global iconic brands helps individuals build and signal their social identity. The use and appropriation of global iconic brands, in the Brazilian context, act as a mechanism used to demarcate a favorable position within the social hierarchy and to generate distinction between individuals and social groups. Specifically, we sought to analyze and understand the discourses used by the consumers to signify, frame, justify and legitimize the consumption of these brands. The research has a qualitative and descriptive character and was carried out through in depth interviews and observation with twenty one women of high economic power and low cultural capital. As a result of this research, based on the different narratives identified, the discourses of the consumers of global iconic brands were categorized into four groups. The utilitarian verbalize that they consume for the functional benefits, not admitting to consume the symbolism. Rational ones reveal that they achieve individual pleasure, but discard the exhibitionist consumption. The ascendants consume as a source of individual pleasure and symbolism of the prestige achieved on account of professional and social ascension. Finally, exhibitionists consume the symbolic value of prestige in order to signal social differentiation towards the other and peers. In addition, consumers were strongly impacted by the global consumption culture, emulating the consumption of developed countries and, similarly, that of the Brazilian elite. This research adds nuances to the analysis of the consumption of such brands within the stratum of high economic power and low cultural capital, overcoming the binary analysis of high and low cultural capital of previous studies, identifying and classifying four different types of narratives regarding practices and meanings linked to the consumption of these brands.

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abstract: This study addresses racial segregation in schools by examining the self-selecting patterns of middle class Asian immigrant parents in a public non-charter school district who enrolled their children in specialized academic programs. This phenomenological study focused on the educational history and the decision-making process of school choice in a sample of 11 Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents; a majority of them were identified as Chinese mothers. This study was conducted to answer the research questions: (R1) How do the parents' past experiences play a role in their perception of specialized academic programs and the decision-making process of selecting a school? (R2) What kind of informational networks or sources are used to make school choice? (R3) What are parents' notions of academic achievement or success for their children? (R4) How do parents' perceive specialized programs after engaging in them? This study sought to understand the relationship between the parents' own educational experiences and their negotiation of school choice for their children by collecting data through interviews, focus groups, and artifact documents. This study found that (1) the competitive conditions of the parents' educational experiences attributed to their sociocultural belief of education as social mobility which was a significant factor in their selection of an advanced program and expectations of high academic achievement; (2) mothers identified school reviews from friends as the most important information they obtained when they made school choice; these reviews took place in their coethnic social networks in Chinese language schools that offered their children heritage language development, academic, and nonacademic-based extracurricular classes; and (3) parents indicated that school choice is a continuous evaluative and comparative process. Overall, the study highlights the participants' bimodal acquisition of school advantages for their children in market-oriented school systems and the roles parents play in establishing cultural norms in making school choice. In return, these norms have depicted the participants in the model minority role, which leads to the perpetuation of the racist stereotype of all Asians as high achievers. This study has presented a multi-layered perspective of how middle class Chinese and Vietnamese American immigrant parents capitalize on specialized academic programs. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2012