'Europe is our classroom': the Swiss school where 'cultural capital' is key
The Local This content was paid for by an advertiser and produced by The Local's Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio 08:00 CET When we send our children to school, we expect that they'll learn how to read and write, to understand how the natural world works and how to measure things. Not as widely considered, but perhaps equally important is the idea of ‘cultural capital’. First coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in 1977, the term refers to the understanding of shared societal and cultural knowledge that allows a person to na...
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