Capital multiplicity and convertibility: Language minorities' multidimensional challenges to accessing postsecondary education in Hong Kong

Capital multiplicity and convertibility: Language minorities' multidimensional challenges to accessing postsecondary education in Hong Kong

• Gao, Fang The Education University of Hong Kong

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016

Routledge

2016

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching
• N Students & Student Services
  • NO Minorities & Immigrant Students

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Despite rapid growth at the 12-year compulsory education stage, Hong Kong’s non-Chinese language minority students make up only 1.3% of the whole full-time postsecondary student population; their attendance rate is 13.8%, far behind the overall rate of 43.8%. Policy and research focus on their secondary school graduation with a widely recognized nexus between Chinese language deficiency and academic underachievement. Yet lower participation rates in postsecondary education (PSE) and nonlinguistic risk factors that account for under-representation have received scarce regional attention. The current study attempts to fill this gap. Utilizing the multiplicity and convertibility of capital in the Bourdieusian conception, this study elicits non-Chinese language minority students’ voices and identifies the interplay effects of multiple capitals on the participants’ pathways to PSE. Findings provide insights into the dynamic processes of convertible capitals and accessing PSE when developing holistic policies that are able to address linguistic and non-linguistic hurdles in the college choice process.
[Copyright © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 01425692
• 14653346

• 10.1080/01425692.2016.1251304

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/d110a15c

2017-01-20