Digital cultural capital of university teachers: a case study in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Digital technology has transformed the social interaction, besides that, the recent pandemic stablished changes in order to live in certain normality; the educational area is not the exception, in that sense, it is imminent to identify the teacher in his new social space. The article approaches aspects of the three states of the cultural capital in order to make a metaphor within a digital context that exposes the current problematic; by means of the studied Bourdieu´s dimensions about society and particularly, of his capital. In accordance of that, it highlights the emerge of concepts as the habitus, practices and teachers’ identity within his social space. The method is sustained by a mixed process, with a random sample of 179 participants of a public university in the northwestern of Mexico. The results indicate the teachers´ digital cultural capital when Covid-19 cropped up; some of them needed to acquire new equipment and others training to cope the new technological requirements. Despite the latest events, teachers adapted favorably, although there was evident that they were concerned about their students. It stands out that the majority have enough acknowledgements that allow them to manage the current problems.