SIG Events at the AERA 2026 Annual Meeting

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 8-12, 2026

Virtual iPresentation Only

Wed, April 8, 7:45am to Sun, April 12, 3:00pm PDT (Thu, April 9, 12:15 to Mon, April 13, 7:30am ACST), Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

‘By Chance’ or ‘by Choice’? A Bourdieusian Study of Graduates from Elite Universities as Schoolteachers

 

Roundtable Session: Bourdieu and Teacherly Dispositions

Wed, April 8, 3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (Thu, April 9, 8:15 to 9:45am ACST), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

·       Divergent Realities: A Bourdieusian Narrative Inquiry into Professional Identity and Opportunity in Canadian EAP/TESOL

·       Negotiating Legitimacy: Chinese Language Teachers’ Identity Formation in Culturally Stratified International Schools in Hong Kong

·       The influence of Institutional Epistemological Beliefs and Teachers’ Epistemological Dispositions on Classroom Practices

Poster Session

Thu, April 9, 2:15 to 3:45pm PDT (Fri, April 10, 6:45 to 8:15am ACST), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

Exploring Transnational Habitus As A Framework To Understand International Student Mobilities: A Theoretical Approach

 

Symposium: Intensive Parenting Across Cultures: Global Varieties in Mobilizing Cultural Capital

Sat, April 11, 3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (Sun, April 12, 8:15 to 9:45am ACST), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304C

·       The Privileged Path: Live-in-Home Tutors and Cultural Capital Transmission in Affluent Chinese Families

·       Distinction Reconfigured: Habitual Privilege, Cultural Capital, and the Performance of Middle-Class Parenting in Germany

·       Learning in the community: Middle-class immigrant parent engagement and devaluation of cultural capital in schools

·       Schools, capital, and the perpetuation of advantage: the case of return migrant families in India

 

Annual Business Meeting: Bourdieu in Educational Research SIG

Sat, April 11, 5:45 to 6:45pm PDT (Sun, April 12, 10:15 to 11:15am ACST), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304C

 

Roundtable Session: Bourdieu and Inequalities

Sun, April 12, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (Mon, April 13, 4:15 to 5:45am ACST), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

·       Disrupting Systemic and Systematic Educational Inequalities Through Legitimizing Racialized Non-Dominant Students' Power for Transformation

·       Low-Socioeconomic Status Students and Decision-Making behind Sorority Membership

·       Service in the Shadows: Faculty of Color, Community Engagement, and the Politics of Academic Recognition

AERA Annual Meeting 2024

Welcoming everyone to Philadelphia!

Bourdieu in Educational Research SIG Business Meeting
Fri, April 12, 6:45 to 8:15pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 401

Attitudes and Politics of Race Through a Bourdieusian Lens
Sat, April 13, 7:45 to 9:15am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 402

Papers:

Dismantling Anti-Asian Racism: A Canadian Study (Dan Cui, Brock University, Frank C. Worrell, University of California-Berkley)

Mediatizing Policy Debates about Migration and Education in England and Germany – Peter Kelly, University of Plymouth, Barbara Gross, Chemnitz University of Technology, Christian Herzog, Leuphana University)

The California Ethnic Studies Mandate and Theories of Social Reproduction and Change (Suneal Kolluri, University of California)

Toward a Well-being Habitus Framework in Higher Education (Paris D. Wicker, University at Buffalo-SUNY)


Identity and Cultural Capital in Remote, Rural, and Underresourced Settings
Sun, April 14, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Table 9, Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

Papers:

Leadership and Equity in Appalachian Education: Toward a Bourdieusian Understanding of Place-Conscious School Administration (Charles L. Lowery, Virginia Tech)

Seemingly Benign: Examining Kindergarten Academic Redshirting Through a Lens Informed by Bourdieu’s Conceptual Framework (Rosalyn R. Washington, University of Delaware)


Bourdieusian Contexts and Cases in Teaching and Technology
Sun, April 14, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 402

Papers:

Behind Flexible Citizenship: Transnational Habitus of Chinese ‘Study Mothers’ in Education-Driven Migration (Yifan Liu, University of Toronto)

“It’s 90% Useless”: Illusio, Online Teaching, and COVID-19 (Stephanie Sanders-Smith, University of Illinois, Jadyn Laixely, University of Illinois, Giselle Del Carmen Martinez Negrette, University of Illinois, Tanya Espinosa Cordoba, Anderson University)

Negotiating Technological Habitus for Equity: Role of Institutional Habitus in Teacher Preparation (Pallavi Chhabra, Washington University)

Reconceptualizing Social Capital Theory: Life Stories of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds (Zhuldyza Amankulova, University of Minnesota)

Bourdieu Multi-Book Launch 2024