Reproduction of Privilege: The Intersection of Middle and Upper Class Educational Models

Year 2022, Volume: 55 Issue: 3, 647 - 692, 30.11.2022

Ayşe Soylu , Mustafa Sever

https://doi.org/10.30964/auebfd.1051346

Abstract

This research sets out to explore how educational processes differentiate across social classes. The principal aim of this study is to probe how social privileges are reproduced through schooling practices at private schools. The focus of the study was how the educational processes are constructed and vary according to students’ sociocultural and socioeconomic characteristics and which processes contribute to the reproduction of privileges. This study was designed as a qualitative case study. The data was generated through interviews with 26 students and 10 teachers from different private high schools. The Code Theory of Basil Bernstein was the theoretical framework for analysing the data. The results has shown that individuals attending to prestigious private schools are under siege in all aspects of their lives both inside and outside the school, and their lives are maintained in isolated environments and through educational and socially structured and controlled activities. Privileged is learned through social, cultural and economic advantages and is reinforced by educational experiences.

Keywords

Private schools, privilege, social class, inequality, education

Ayrıcalığın Yeniden Üretimi: Üst ve Orta Sınıfın Eğitim Modellerinin Kesişimi

Abstract

Eğitsel süreçlerin sosyal sınıflara göre farklılaşma biçimleri üzerinden kurgulanan bu araştırmanın temel amacı sosyal ayrıcalıkların özel okullarda okul içi süreçler üzerinden nasıl yeniden üretildiğini belirlemektir. Bu doğrultuda araştırmanın odak noktaları eğitsel süreçlerin hangi dinamikler üzerinden yapılandırıldığı, öğrencilerin sosyokültürel ve sosyoekonomik özelliklerine göre nasıl farklılaştığı ve sosyal ayrıcalıkların yeniden üretilmesine hangi süreçlerin katkıda bulunduğudur. Nitel bir durum çalışması olarak desenlenen çalışmada veriler, farklı özel liselerden 26 öğrenci ve 10 öğretmen ile görüşmeler yoluyla elde edilmiştir. Basil Bernstein'ın Kod Teorisi, veri çözümleme sürecinde kuramsal çerçeveyi oluşturmuştur. Araştırma bulguları prestijli özel okullara devam eden bireylerin hem okul içinde hem de okul dışında yaşamlarının bütün yönleriyle ayrıcalıkları yeniden üretme açısından kuşatıldığını ve yaşamlarının izole ortamlarda, eğitsel ve sosyal olarak yapılandırılmış ve kontrollü faaliyetlerle sürdürüldüğünü göstermiştir. Bu doğrultuda ulaşılan en genel sonuç ise ayrıcalıklı konumun, sosyal, kültürel ve ekonomik avantajlarla öğrenildiği ve eğitim deneyimleriyle pekiştirildiğidir.

Keywords

Özel okullar, ayrıcalık, sosyal sınıf, eşitsizlik, eğitim

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