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SUMMARY:Little Room for Capacitation: Rethinking Bourdieu on Pedagogic Act
 ion as Symbolic Violence - Megan Watkins \,  Associate Professor in the Sc
 hool of Education and the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Syd
 ney University
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In Bourdieu’s early work on education\, he declares that ‘
 All pedagogic action (PA) is objectively symbolic violence insofar as it i
 s the imposition of a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary power’. This pa
 per rethinks Bourdieu’s proposition. It questions whether all PA is symb
 olic violence and the very notion of a cultural arbitrary upon which this 
 view is based. His concept of PA leaves little room for capacitation where
 in\, rather than a cultural arbitrary\, certain skills have an inherent us
 e value equipping individuals with capacities that are a means for social 
 transformation. A reconceptualization of pedagogy as enabling allows for a
  reconfiguration of field as a domain of social action not just a domain o
 f reproduction and distinction. 
LOCATION: GS4\,  Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8
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