Teachers' racialised habitus in school knowledge construction: a Bourdieusian analysis of social inequality beyond class. Issue 8 (17th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cui, Dan
• Is Part Of: British journal of sociology of education. Volume 38:Issue 8(2017)
• Page Start: 1152
• Page End: 1164
• Publication Date: 2017-11-17
• Subjects: Racialised habitus -- Chinese Canadian youth -- school knowledge -- curriculum -- race -- Bourdieu; Educational sociology -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1251303
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-5692

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines the school experiences of Chinese Canadian youth, a population often ignored by the academy under the model minority discourse. Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical insights, I raise and discuss the concept of teachers' racialised habitus. I explore how teachers' racialised habitus structures their practices of knowledge construction via formal and hidden curricula, and how it consequently affects Chinese Canadian youth's identity construction. I argue that habitus, as an important theoretical tool that links the social and the individual as well as past, present and future, can also be used to study other forms of social inequality beyond class. This article makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to the research on habitus by highlighting teachers' racialised habitus in relation to the perpetuation of racism in the educational field.