The Roles of Cultural Capital in Teacher-Student Interactions in China: A Qualitative Study of Students in Higher Vocational Colleges.

ABSTRACT: The theory of cultural capital has long been applied to explain academic achievement. This qualitative study investigated first-year students in higher vocational colleges and, taking this low cultural capital group as an example, explored how cultural capital has affected their past teacher-student interactions. Participants described their experience of interacting with their teachers. We found that these students primarily experienced authoritative and laissez-faire teacher-student interactions. Students' embodied and institutionalized cultural capital profoundly affected different aspects of the teacher-student interaction. In modern China, vocational and academic education are of the same status, so teachers should modify their evaluations based solely on academic achievement. When in

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10452010 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature