Full Description
A response to Argentina's shifting political climate, Global Liberalism and Elite Schooling in Argentina reveals how elite schooling encourages the hoarding of educational advantage and reinforces social inequalities. Presenting Buenos Aires's Caledonian School as part of the growing scholarly discussion on elite education in the Global South, Howard Prosser situates the school's history in concert with that of the state, the region, and the globe. The book applies new methodologies for the study of elite schools in globalizing circumstances by fusing ethnographic fieldwork with archival research and a wealth of secondary sources. This transdisciplinary approach focuses on the nature of liberalism as a global ideal, positing that eliteness is sustained by an economy with its own culture of value and exchange that, ironically, the scholarship on elites may help perpetuate.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
FOREWORD by Jane Kenway
INTRODUCTION
I WORLD-CLASS PRACTICES
ONE A Constellational Approach to the Study of Elite Schooling
TWO Articulating the Sociology of Elite Education
and Global Ethnography
THREE Economy of Eliteness: Consuming Educational Advantage
II HISTORICAL FORCES
FOUR The Caledonian School's Establishment:
Empire, Nation, School
FIVE The Caledonian School's Ascendancy:
Authoritarianism, Populism, Post-Neoliberalism
III POLITICAL CULTURE
SIX "Drunk on Capitalism:" Teaching History to Rich Kids
SEVEN Moulding Plastic Liberalism:
Political Discussion during an Election Year
EIGHT Winners Helping Losers: The Comforts of Service Learning
CONCLUSION
AFTERWORD ON METHOD
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