New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

ISBN-13: 9780367143220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Jane Kenway; Aaron Koh

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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