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The foundation for Love In Abundance – College Must Begin in 8th Grade Life and Precollege Preparatory Program is based on the late, Dr. Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociological Perspective Capitals. These Capitals consist of:

Dr. Bourdieu’s Capitals

Capital Narrowly

Defined

Societal Expectation

Personal Benefit

Social Capital

This Capital includes the friends and associates made to help students define actions and reactions in relation to her aspirations. This Capital also introduces how to network, beginning with familiar or career related entities.

 Students are able to formulate the right relationships to be an asset to every entity partaking of this student’s talents. Student is aware of the friendship and social alliances formed and their ability to affect/influence advancement. Networking provides insight into how to become their own advantage for aspired and worked for opportunities.

Symbolic Capital

This Capital includes active membership in clubs and organizations in school or those closely connected to student’s field of interest/career.

 Student readily participates in activities able to propel him/her to their desired and worked for aspirations, via forming an alliance with associations already esteemed in their desired field of interest. Student understands that a number of life advancing skills are gained through organizational affiliations, and how earnest efforts can open the door to opportunities through these affiliations.

Economic Capital

This Capital expounds upon the necessity of effective budgeting, paying self first via a savings plan, giving back as a life norm, and having a continuously updated financial plan

 Students has taken a proactive stance regarding all things financial, because this produces a person who knows when to give and when to receive for their benefit and those being served. Student will comprehend their role in mapping out his/her financial future instead of waiting for desired finances to be extended. Knowing that wealth is not limited to finances, only.

Cultural Capital

Reveals how a slothful attitude toward education influences ability to attract self to or detract self from opportunities.  This includes external presentation, and the top six deficits of the surveyed college and university professors, etc.

 Student understands mastering his/her education empowers them for the premise of you do not get a second chance to make a first impression. Thus creating a person with the power to create the desired subliminal first impression. Students grasps the reality that excelling in education creates an individual who heightens his/her appeal to those entities with any number of their desired life advancing opportunities.

Research Articles


RECENT ARTICLES TO SUBSTANTIATE – LIA COLLEGE MUST BEGIN IN 8TH GRADE LIFE AND PRECOLLEGE PREPARATORY PROGRAM

The benefits of Social and Symbolic Capital are expressed in an article titled, “The 10 Worst Mistakes of First Time Job Hunters” posted on fins.com, By Kelly.Eggers.@dowjones.com October 10, 2011    12:04p

An April 2011 survey conducted by Braun Research on behalf of Adecco Staffing U. S. found that 71% of 500 recent four-year college graduates would have done something differently to prepare for the job market. Kathy Kane, senior vice president of talent management for Adecco NA, said, “To find out what students can do to better prepare for the current job market, we spoke with career coaches, recruiters and recent graduates.” Top Research Responses Reveal Students Would Have:

  1. Started Looking for Jobs Earlier
  2. Networked
  3. Take a Job or Internship in Addition to Course Load
  4. Gotten More Involved in Career-Related Extra Curricular Activities
  5. Applied to More Jobs
  6. Focused More on Becoming Professional
  7. Done More to Figure Out What My Career Goals Were
  8. Gone to the Career Center
  9. Kept Better Track of My Achievements
  10. Focused More on Developing Relevant Skills
  •       Each of these issues are addressed in the College Must Begin in 8th Grade Series

Dr. Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, as reported in article: Wellington College head: ‘Schools becoming Exam Factories     October 12, 2011 in bbc.co.uk

The more deprived the social background of the child, the more important school becomes as that chance to develop all the different intelligences and aptitudes that lie within a child”.

“For too long we’ve had this brutally frank and ineffective way of measuring schools, and measuring teachers, and what it has done is it’s rendered schools ultimately into exam factories, a kind of sausage process machine whereby all seems to matter is this end result.”

“This is dehumanizing and it’s not good enough.”

“Ministers have been clear that they want to end the culture of constant exams and re-sits which prevents pupils getting in-depth subject knowledge, fails to prepare them for further study and stops them getting a broad education.”


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