Description
Geography matters to elite schools — to how they function and flourish, to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate themselves. They mark, and market, place. This collection, as a whole, reads elite schools through a spatial lens. It offers fresh lines of inquiry to the ‘new sociology of elite schools.’ Collectively the authors examine elite schools and systems in different parts of the world. They highlight the ways that these schools, and their clients, operate within diverse local, national, regional, and global contexts in order to shape their own and their clients’ privilege and prestige. The collection also points to the uses of the transnational as a resource via the International Baccalaureate, study tours, and the discourses of global citizenship. Building on research about social class, meritocracy, privilege, and power in education, it offers inventive critical lenses and insights particularly from the ‘Global South.’ As such it is an intervention in global power/knowledge geographies.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Overview
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading the Dynamics of Educational Privilege through a Spatial Lens
Aaron Koh and Jane Kenway
1. Becoming the Man: Redefining Asian Masculinity in an Elite Boarding School
Wee Loon Yeo
2. Capitalizing on Well-Roundedness: Chinese Students’ Cultural Mediations in an Elite Australian School
Yujia Wang
3. The Emergence of Elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) Schools in China: A ‘Skyboxification’ Perspective
Moosung Lee, Ewan Wright, and Allan Walker
4. Elite Schoolboys Becoming Global Citizens: Examining the Practice of Habitus
Chin Ee Loh
5. The Joy of Privilege: Elite Private School Online Promotions and the Promise of Happiness
Christopher Drew, Kristina Gottschall, Natasha Wardman, and Sue Saltmarsh
6. Old Boy Networks: The Relationship between Elite Schooling, Social Capital, and Positions of Power in British Society
Shane Watters
7. Exclusive Consumers: The Discourse of Privilege in Elite Indian School Websites
Radha Iyer
8. The Insiders: Changing Forms of Reproduction in Education
Hugues Draelants
9. Can Geographies of Privilege and Oppression Combine?: Elite Education in Northern Portugal
Eunice Macedo and Helena C. Araújo
10. "We Are Not Elite Schools": Studying the Symbolic Capital of Swiss Boarding Schools
Caroline Bertron
11. Tourism, Educational Travel, and Transnational Capital: From the Grand Tour to the "Year Abroad" among Sciences Po-Paris Students
Bertrand Réau
12. Schools and Families: School Choice and Formation of Elites in Present Day Argentina
Sandra Ziegler
13. The Economy of Eliteness: Consuming Educational Advantage
Howard Prosser
Contributors
Index
