The Fascist Painting What is Cultural Capital?

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The Fascist Painting is a serious, rich and deeply intelligent piece of work that will radically alter the way we view culture in schools and will be a key text for anyone designing a curriculum. The Ofsted Inspection Framework states that cultural capital is "The essential knowledge that pupils need to be educated citizens" and that schools "should be introducing [students] to the best that has been thought and said and helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement". They are now considering "the extent to which schools are equipping pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life." But what does this term mean? And how are schools to respond to this? In this densely argued and wide-ranging text, Phil Beadle answers those questions and many more by using the work of Pierre Bourdieu to prompt a discussion of how we improve the provision of cultural capital in our schools.