Lucky readers

This book is the result of a master's thesis in education that analyses the reading habits of children from humble families. They are the exception to the rule. Even though they live in homes with no tradition of reading, they are good readers by sheer luck. The study addresses, among other researchers, concepts from French theorist Pierre Bourdieu, who was certain that school is an instrument for reproducing existing social and economic conditions. Much of his work, which began in the 1960s, was guided by this principle. According to Bourdieu's deterministic diagnosis, the process of reproduction takes place in a disguised way, in other words, education favours the bourgeois class without making it obvious that it is a privilege and, at the same time, it is all the easier to convince the underprivileged that they owe their school and social destiny to their lack of gifts and merit 'as in matters of culture the absolute deprivation of possession excludes the awareness of deprivation of possession'.