New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

Herausgeber: Kenway, Jane; Koh, Aaron

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is framed around the notion of a 'new sociology of elite education', bringing together a new array of conceptual and theoretical tools while also deepening those that already exist. The contributions examine various configurations of contemporary class making and their attendant politics in a diverse range of countries. These explorations are situated in the specificities of geographical locales where the complex dynamics of both national/local educational priorities and global/transnational forces are played out, showing how these dynamics put pressure on elite schools to redefine them. This book was first published as a special issue of British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780367143220
• ISBN-10: 0367143224
• Artikelnr.: 56976320

Autorenporträt

Jane Kenway is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University. Her research expertise is in socio-cultural studies of education in the context of wider social and cultural change, focusing particularly on matters of power and politics. She is the editor of Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege (2016) and Asia as Method in Education Studies: A defiant research imagination (2015). She led the international research team on a multi-national research project titled Elite schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography, the results of which were published as Class Choreographies: Elite Schools and Globalisation (2016). Aaron Koh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Education. He does inter- and trans-disciplinary research in the areas of Global Studies in Education and Cultural Studies in Education. He has published two co-edited books, Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege (2016) and Education in the Global City: The Manufacturing of Education in Singapore (2016). He is also the co-founding Editor of the Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling 1. The
transnational track: state sponsorship and Singapore's Oxbridge elite 2.
Elite international schools in the Global South: transnational space, class
relationalities and the 'middling' international schoolteacher 3.
'Thousands waiting at our gates': moral character, legitimacy and social
justice in Irish elite schools 4. Elite education and the State in France:
durable ties and new challenges 5. The gift economy of elite schooling: the
changing contours and contradictions of privileged benefaction 6. Assured
optimism in a Scottish girls' school: habitus and the (re)production of
global privilege 7. Elite schools, postcolonial Chineseness and hegemonic
masculinities in Singapore 8. Social class as flow and mutability: the
Barbados case 9. The role of internationalisation in the schooling of
Brazilian elites: distinctions between two class fractions