Abstract
Deficit models that attribute academic underachievement to individual inadequacies have dominated the discourse about the
reasons for attainment gaps in pre-registration healthcare education. We aimed to explore how Bourdieusian theorisations of
education as a field of cultural reproduction, can contribute to the understanding of attainment inequalities in pre-registration
healthcare programmes. Within a novel participatory and mixed methods design, 95 students and 25 academic faculty from 7 preregistration health programmes at a London university, took part respectively in online mediated focus groups and semi-structured
interviews. Further data was gathered from an online cross-sectional survey that was disseminated to all students in these health
programmes. Findings based on template and quantitative analysis showed inequalities in the learning experience in preregistration healthcare education, which is systemically reproduced through economic, social and cultural forms of capital and
institutional habitus. Bourdieusian theories show how inequalities in the field of healthcare education are structurally reproduced.
reasons for attainment gaps in pre-registration healthcare education. We aimed to explore how Bourdieusian theorisations of
education as a field of cultural reproduction, can contribute to the understanding of attainment inequalities in pre-registration
healthcare programmes. Within a novel participatory and mixed methods design, 95 students and 25 academic faculty from 7 preregistration health programmes at a London university, took part respectively in online mediated focus groups and semi-structured
interviews. Further data was gathered from an online cross-sectional survey that was disseminated to all students in these health
programmes. Findings based on template and quantitative analysis showed inequalities in the learning experience in preregistration healthcare education, which is systemically reproduced through economic, social and cultural forms of capital and
institutional habitus. Bourdieusian theories show how inequalities in the field of healthcare education are structurally reproduced.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 49-50 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
| Event | BSA Medical Sociology Conference - York Duration: 1 Jan 2002 → … |
Conference
| Conference | BSA Medical Sociology Conference |
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| City | York |
| Period | 1/01/2002 → … |