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Bourdieu-type Discrimination of Welsh speakers and School to Work Transition / BALAUSSA SHAIMAKHANOVA
Swansea University Author: BALAUSSA SHAIMAKHANOVA
DOI (Published version): 10.23889/SUthesis.64668
Abstract
Inequality in the UK educational system is a well-known problem. Pierre Bourdieu conceptualized a cultural-identity-related bias illustrated as a cause of educational inequality in France. I apply his conceptual framework to the case of the UK and Wales. My choice is motivated by the historical prec...
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Swansea, Wales, UK
2023
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| Institution: | Swansea University |
| Degree level: | Doctoral |
| Degree name: | Ph.D |
| Supervisor: | Tubadji, Annie., Boy, Frederic. and Thomas, Wayne . |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64668 |
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Inequality in the UK educational system is a well-known problem. Pierre Bourdieu conceptualized a cultural-identity-related bias illustrated as a cause of educational inequality in France. I apply his conceptual framework to the case of the UK and Wales. My choice is motivated by the historical precedence of the Welsh-Not phenomenon expressed in the under-evaluation of the Welsh cultural identity. I define this as the Bourdieu-type bias. The aim of my thesis is to explore and document the presence of Bourdieu-type bias in the UK educational system from the end of the Welsh Not period till nowadays. Namely, I conduct empirical tests for the presence of the Bourdieu-type bias in relation to: (i) entrepreneurial activity; (ii) socio-economic mobility; (iii) heterogenous teacher biased expectations; (iv) teacher biased expectations and aspirational gaps. For the first two chapters of my thesis, I use a unique historic dataset from a Welsh secondary boys’ school, that I discovered in Glamorgan Archives in Swansea. I employ a variety of non-parametric and parametric econometric tests. Specifically, I used the causal two stage least squares with instrumental variable method. For the remaining two chapters of my thesis, I use the large British National Child Development Survey. This survey is richly informed with variables approximating the Bourdieu-type mechanism. It offers data for later time periods than the first dataset, thus allowing me to study the persistence of the Bourdieu-type bias over time. Among others, I use here a multiple hypothesis testing approach to cross-check whether my statistical test on Bourdieu-type bias is not driven by other coinciding processes. My findings document the presence and persistence of Bourdieu-type negative bias towards Welsh-speaking students. The value-added of my work is that I reveal how besides economic endowments and family wealth, cultural stereotyping affects deeply the future of people through the educational system. |
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| Keywords: |
Bourdieu, School to Work Transition, Discrimination, Welsh Not |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |