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Home Discourse and School Discourse an Imperfect Fit:The
Zimbabwean Case presented
Leadus MadzimaUCT
Research Context
• Education regarded as life‘s gateway
• Responsibility of educating left to parents -implications
• Impact of cultural reproduction and identity
• Education in capitalistic Zimbabwe
The Problem• Home Discourse and School Discourse an
impeferct fit
• Exploring the impact of struggle to maintain identity
• Challenge of disconnectedness in working class learners in mastering middle class discourse
Research Issues
• Home characteristics: what and how they learn at home and community
• School characteristics: what and how they learn at school
• What is home and school correspondence
Methodology• Home focused interviews: working middle
class to evaluate social and cultural capital inputs
• Classroom observation:pedagogic action to evaluate intellectual capital and inputs
• Mid year examinations and learners achievement
• End of year achievement to evaluate output
Main Reference Texts• Basil Bernstein(1971,1969, 1969a)
• Pierre Bourdieu(1993,1990,1977)
• Bourdieu and Passeron(1977)
• Stephen Ball (2006)
• Ball and Gintis(1976)
• James Coleman(1966)
• Jay Lemke(1995)
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