New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

Author:   Jane Kenway (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) ,  Aaron Koh (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 May 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jane Kenway (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) ,  Aaron Koh (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138700666


ISBN 10:   1138700665
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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