This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

Students' socioeconomic status (SES) is central to much research and policy deliberation on
educational inequalities. However, the SES model is under severe stress for several …

A growing body of evidence supports the contention of scholarly culture theory that
immersing children in book-oriented environments benefits their later educational …

Abstract United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4, namely Quality Education, has
highlighted major challenges for all nations to ensure inclusive and equitable quality access …

Extramural English (EE) exposure has been shown to correlate with general vocabulary
knowledge. It remains uncertain, however, how academic vocabulary knowledge correlates …

Children with a rich home literacy environment generally show better reading
comprehension. For children in the higher grades of primary school, this relation is thought …

Incorporating cognitive, neuropsychological, and sociocultural perspectives, this
authoritative text explains the psychological processes involved in reading and describes …

Schools' socioeconomic status (SES) has been claimed as an important influence on
student performance and there are calls for a policy response. However, there is an …

The overall aim of this study was to examine the different self-reported students'
socioeconomic status (SES) measures in the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study …

In studies of educational achievement, students' self-reported number of books in the family
home is a frequently used proxy for social, cultural, and economic background. Absent hard …