Cultural Capital
What is cultural capital?
The ideas and knowledge that people draw upon as they participate in social life.
What is the difference between assest and deficit perspectives?
Asset: What they have to offer
Deficit: What they lack
What is funds of knowledge?
A way to describe the skills and knowledge that come from one’s cultural background and experiences
What does it mean to have self efficacy?
The belief in your abilities, behaviors, and attitudes
What is the difference between self confidence versus self esteem?
Self-confidence: the belief in your specific abilities to perform a task
Self-esteem: your overall sense of self-worth and personal value as a person
A teacher raising their voices scares a student due to Homelife. Their last teacher never raised their voice in the classroom. How does the students cultural captial affect their learning?
The student is more comfortable and learns better in a classroom that understands their cultural capital and personal experiences. While the teacher that raises their voice could be doing so for a good reason, they disregard how that can affect the student.
A boy loves to draw and wants to be the class poster maker. However, his teacher won't let him because he has poor handwriting. Which perspective does this demonstrate and why?
Deficit Perspective: See's him for what skills he lacks rather than what he posesses
A student absolutely loves to builds rockets and does it in their spare time. In class, a teacher has them read about rockets rather than build them like in another teachers class. How does this relate to students funds of knowldge?
He didn't pull from the skills and interests of the student and missed out on a engaging learning opportunity.
I need to talk in order to learn. My teacher sends me to the principal's office because of it and claims I'm disruptive. She's the only one talking, so I think that's a disruption. How does this affect the students efficacy?
The teacher giving direct instruction is not allowing the student to build the motivation they need in themselves to feel like they have self-efficacy.
A teacher assumes a student is an "empty vessel" that struggles with learning. This student knows how to buy bus tokens, live without electricty, entertain with humor, find rummage sales, stay safe in the community, and other life skills.
The student builds confidence in other real-world situations rather than academic, which leads to a lack of confidence in both the student and teacher. This doesn't let the student build self-esteem for healthy learning.