In search of a curriculum planning model for the development of family's cultural capital and academic success of children

The aim of this research is to search for a model for the curriculum planning of the parents'' cultural capital growth and to facilitate the children''s Progress in school. The correlation of the parent''s cultural capital dimensions with the educational achivement of the students was studied، and an efficient plan for the growth of the family''s cultural capital was designed، implemented and evaluated. The theoretical framework of this research is derived from Bourdieu theories. Basis on the Pierre Bourdieu''s viewpoint، cultural capital has three subtypes: institutionalized، objectified، embodied. The research method is quasi-experimental and it has two evidence and test groups. The tool for gathering information in this research is the questionnaire for ascertaining the cultural capital elements and also the Baum rind questionnaire. Its validity was obtained 83% by the experts and specialists through conducting experiments on 30 persons. The statistical population consists of 54 families that are selected randomly from north and south of Tehran who their children were in grade 4 in high school. They were interviewed by professional interviewers and the experimental group participated in a training workshop for introducing families with cultural capital elements. Assumptions of the research were: 1) Training of parents influences their cultural capital (interest in the art works، music، painting and calligraphy and foreign language). 2) Training of parents influences their cultural capital (improvement of relationship with book، drawings، computer، media، camera، and library membership). 3) Training of parents influences their cultural capital (participation in the courses that results in getting skill certificate). 4) Training of parents influences their way of child rearing. 5) Teaching the cultural capital elements to the parents influences their children''s school achievement. For doing descriptive analysis of data، the statistics of frequency، mean and standard deviation، and for inferential analysis of data، the analysis method of one-way and co-variance (ANCOVA) were used. The findings showed that regular training of parents in the level of P<0. 05 has had positive effect on the family''s cultural capital elements and the children''s educational progress. The Implemented Curriculum consistes of goals، contents، methods، learning-teaching process، media and evaluation، has contributed considerably to the growth of the cultural capital and to the creation of richer cultural environment for the children''s educational success.