---
_id: '66779'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Nowhere does the need to appreciate a diverse range of different intercultural
    experiences appear more obvious than in the context of intercultural education.
    Yet, in times of neoliberal hegemony over educational politics and policies, less
    socioculturally dominant and often more colloquial funds of intercultural knowledge
    risk to suffer continued institutional marginalization and curricular obliteration.
    To counter such forms of symbolic violence and to create learning environments
    that value a wide range of processes of intercultural capital realization, intercultural
    education needs to overcome ideas of “bad habitus” and “good reflexivity”, for
    they prematurely discredit the value of people’s practical sense, while failing
    to problematize the sociocultural contingency of their reflexive capacities. In
    a critical appropriation of Bourdieu’s conceptualization of human agency, the
    present article highlights the reconcilability of reflexivity and habitus, with
    a particular interest in processes of intercultural capital realization and the
    (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education.
article_number: '1149915'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Pöllmann, Andreas
  id: '77437'
  last_name: Pöllmann
  orcid: 0000-0002-9090-2547
citation:
  ama: 'Pöllmann A. Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization of intercultural capital:
    The (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education. <i>Cogent Social Sciences</i>.
    2016;2(1). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>'
  apa: 'Pöllmann, A. (2016). Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization of intercultural
    capital: The (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education. <i>Cogent Social
    Sciences</i>, <i>2</i>(1), Article 1149915. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Pöllmann_2016, title={Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization
    of intercultural capital: The (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education},
    volume={2}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>},
    number={11149915}, journal={Cogent Social Sciences}, publisher={Informa UK Limited},
    author={Pöllmann, Andreas}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: 'Pöllmann, Andreas. “Habitus, Reflexivity, and the Realization of Intercultural
    Capital: The (Unfulfilled) Potential of Intercultural Education.” <i>Cogent Social
    Sciences</i> 2, no. 1 (2016). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. Pöllmann, “Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization of intercultural
    capital: The (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education,” <i>Cogent Social
    Sciences</i>, vol. 2, no. 1, Art. no. 1149915, 2016, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>.'
  mla: 'Pöllmann, Andreas. “Habitus, Reflexivity, and the Realization of Intercultural
    Capital: The (Unfulfilled) Potential of Intercultural Education.” <i>Cogent Social
    Sciences</i>, vol. 2, no. 1, 1149915, Informa UK Limited, 2016, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915">10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915</a>.'
  short: A. Pöllmann, Cogent Social Sciences 2 (2016).
date_created: 2026-08-23T17:04:54Z
date_updated: 2026-08-24T08:27:58Z
doi: 10.1080/23311886.2016.1149915
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         2'
issue: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Cogent Social Sciences
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2331-1886
publication_status: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization of intercultural capital: The (unfulfilled)
  potential of intercultural education'
type: journal_article
user_id: '77437'
volume: 2
year: '2016'
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