Dr. Laura Engel and GSEHD alumna Heidi Gibson (master's, International Education) published an article, "Elite making and increasing access to cosmopolitan capital: DC youth experiences in education abroad" in the journal, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.
Per the abstract:
This paper focuses on the production of cosmopolitan capital among students participating in the DC Public Schools Study Abroad Program, an initiative that has been lauded as shifting the narrative of equitable access to global learning. We draw on a framework of Bourdieusian ideas about cultural capital, as well as community cultural wealth perspectives to illuminate findings from a multi-year, mixed-method study of the program. Our focus is on how students, many of whom identify as belonging to minoritised groups within the US, experience global travel and its varying effects as related to the production and expression of cosmopolitan capital. By examining how cosmopolitan capital is mobilized and enacted in a myriad of ways by youth in a globalizing urban space, we engage and contribute to the literature on internationalization and elite making, inviting a more relational definition of ‘elites’.