Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus: How Families Shape Children's Engagement and Identification With Science
Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus: How Families Shape Children's Engagement and Identification With Science
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DOI：
10.3102/0002831211433290
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Wong, Billy
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作者：
Archer, Louise;DeWitt, Jennifer;Wong, Billy
16岁以后的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学习参与率低是一个国际关注的问题。现有的证据表明，儿童的科学愿望主要是在关键的10至14岁期间形成的。本文报告了来自英格兰9,000多名小学生（10/11岁）的调查数据和来自160个半结构化访谈（92名10/11岁的儿童和78名家长）的定性数据，这些数据是作为英国正在进行的5年纵向研究的一部分收集的，跟踪10至14岁的儿童。借鉴布迪厄的概念框架，本文探讨了家庭惯习和资本的相互作用如何使一些（特别是中产阶级）儿童的科学愿望比其他人更“幼稚”。有人认为，虽然家庭惯习是不确定的（有没有家庭惯习，资本，和孩子的科学愿望之间的直接对齐），社会不平等的资本分配和差异分类的家庭惯习联合收割机相结合，产生不均匀的（分类，种族化）模式，在儿童的科学愿望和未来的潜在参与。
Low participation rates in the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) post-16 are a matter of international concern. Existing evidence suggests children's science aspirations are largely formed within the critical 10 to 14 age period. This article reports on survey data from over 9,000 elementary school children in England (age 10/11) and qualitative data from 160 semi-structured interviews (92 children aged 10/11 and 78 parents), collected as part of an ongoing 5-year longitudinal study in the United Kingdom tracking children from 10 to 14. Drawing on the conceptual framework of Bourdieu, the article explores how the interplay of family habitus and capital can make science aspirations more "thinkable" for some (notably middle-class) children than others. It is argued that while family habitus is not deterministic (there is no straightforward alignment between family habitus, capital, and a child's science aspirations), social inequalities in the distribution of capital and differentially classed family habitus combine to produce uneven (classed, racialized) patterns in children's science aspirations and potential future participation.