Cultural Capital, Learning and ICT in a Southern Italian University

In the university setting, e-learning courses represent a flexible resource that can tackle a range of difficulties pertaining to primary degree courses and post-graduate qualifications. With reference to the teaching of Social Science Methodology within a primary degree course in an Italian university, this article suggests that e-learning can help new students with weak cultural capital to overcome some of the difficulties that can often lead them to drop out of university.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SOCRATES
• Authors: Bianca Arcangeli, Paolo Diana
• Keywords: E-learning Courses, Education, Primary Degree Course, Social Science Methodology, SOCRATES 2008