Home Discourse and School Discourse an Imperfect Fit:The

Zimbabwean Case presented

Leadus MadzimaUCT

Research Context

• Education regarded as life‘s gateway

• Responsibility of educating left to parents -implications

• Impact of cultural reproduction and identity

• Education in capitalistic Zimbabwe

The Problem• Home Discourse and School Discourse an

impeferct fit

• Exploring the impact of struggle to maintain identity

• Challenge of disconnectedness in working class learners in mastering middle class discourse

Research Issues

• Home characteristics: what and how they learn at home and community

• School characteristics: what and how they learn at school

• What is home and school correspondence

Methodology• Home focused interviews: working middle

class to evaluate social and cultural capital inputs

• Classroom observation:pedagogic action to evaluate intellectual capital and inputs

• Mid year examinations and learners achievement

• End of year achievement to evaluate output

Main Reference Texts• Basil Bernstein(1971,1969, 1969a)

• Pierre Bourdieu(1993,1990,1977)

• Bourdieu and Passeron(1977)

• Stephen Ball (2006)

• Ball and Gintis(1976)

• James Coleman(1966)

• Jay Lemke(1995)