What do ‘Baby Shark’, ‘Let it Go’ from Frozen and Peppa Pig all have in common.
Other than them being mildly annoying, when you have heard or watched them a hundred times, they all make up a part of a child’s popular culture. The dictionary defines ‘popular culture’ as being based on the “tastes of ordinary people, rather than the educated elite” (Oxford Reference, 2023)
So, what role should popular culture play in a child’s cultural capital?
Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, which forms the foundation for Ofsted’s definition, was a belief that exposure to, or having possession of some things, gave you an advantage in life and society, for example, financial capital.
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