Sociogenesi della vocazione artistica. Capitale culturale e habitus negli studenti delle scuole d’arte.

This research explores the educational experiences by means of a qualitative perspective with in-depth interviews and focus groups to young pupils and their parents. The research takes place in, private and public, secondary art schools in Milan. I define art in the space of educational choices, in a Bourdieusian perspective. Young pupils’ choice to study the plastic art represents the primary interest in my research. The artistic pathway is problematized as atypical, an against the grain experience characterized by both manual and intellectual dimensions. I study the meanings of this choice, the educational representations and attitudes of the students, and their parents, as well as the ambitions on the future. I will investigate the school choice, learner identity and the creative aspiration as classed concepts by means of cultural capital tool. I intend to consider how the educational and professional projects are linked to class identity and to neoliberal order. I want to study the class differences in the way in which students orient themselves towards creative educational routes and professional futures. In sum, I will explore the role of secondary art school to reproduce the social differences in terms of educational and professional aspirations.