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Cultural Capital; What you know matters!
In the 1970s, the term ‘Cultural Capital’ was introduced by sociologist Bourdieu in response to the idea of ‘Economic Capital’ from Marx (Cultural Learning Alliance, 2019). Beyond this ‘Social Capital’ a highly contested term could be defined as the benefits of ‘who you know’ (Claridge 2004) , Great- but what does that pile of words mean? Well…
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School Readiness
What parents can expect from Among The Leaves in helping prepare their child for school. This year (April 2026), the government released the first definitive idea of what being ready for school looks like for typically developing children. For early educators, I think there was a collective sigh of relief that it did indeed focus…
