Boarding Schools and Capital Benefits: Implications for Urban School Reform

Lisa R. Bass

The Journal of Educational Research, 2014, vol. 107, issue 1, 16-35

Abstract: The author discusses the boarding school model as a schooling alternative to improve life chances for disadvantaged youth, particularly African American youth, by positively meeting their social and educational needs. Bourdieu, Coleman, and other social scientists purported that these needs can be better met by exposing students to social and cultural capital. In this qualitative study, the environment of a boarding school is studied to determine to what extent they increase students' exposure to social, cultural, and education capital (Bourdieu, 1977, 1993, 1996). Findings indicate that the boarding school model is successful at increasing students' exposure to social, cultural, and education capital. Implications include implementing successful practices from boarding schools into traditional day schools.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2012.753855

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