Objective To describe the prospective relationship between physical activity and academic
performance. Data Sources Prospective studies were identified from searches in PubMed …

The belief that participation in sport and physical activity assists the integration of culturally
and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrants is prominent within sport policy and …

In this article, the authors argue that US colleges and universities must grapple with
persistent engagements of Black bodies as property. Engaging the research and …

In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in US schools. Citing a …

This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

In this article, we assess how the concept of cultural capital has been imported into the
English language, focusing on educational research. We argue that a dominant …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …

This article provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic
achievement. The author analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth …

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Postsecondary
Education Transcript Study, we assess the levels of cultural capital possessed by first …

The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal
model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational …