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ISBN-10 :  1138100935 

ISBN-13 :  9781138100930

Author:  Jane Kenway, Cameron McCarthy 

Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances foregrounds the richly theoretical and empirically-based work of an international cast of scholars seeking to break out of the confines of the methodological nationalism that now governs so much of contemporary scholarship on schooling. Based on a 5-year extended global ethnography of elite schools in nine different countries—countries defined by colonial pasts linked to England—the contributors make a powerful case for the rethinking of elite schools and elite class formation theory in light of contemporary processes of globalization and transnational change. Prestigious, high-status schools have long been seen as critical institutional vehicles directly contributing to the societal processes of elite selection and reproduction. This book asserts that much has changed and that these schools can no longer rest on their past laurels and accomplishments. Instead they must re-cast their heritages and tradition in order to navigate the new globally competitive educational field enabling them to succeed in a world in which the globalization of educational markets, the global ambitions and imaginations of school youth, and the emergence of new powerful players peddling entrepreneurial models of curriculum and education, have placed contemporary schooling under tremendous pressure. This insightful and though-provoking volume provides a well-researched perspective on the nature of contemporary schooling in the globalizing era. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Elite Schools in Globalising Circumstances New Conceptual Directions and Connections 1st Table of contents:

1. Staying ahead of the game: the globalising practices of elite schools
Introduction
Global forces
Colonialism/post-colonialism
Global market capitalism
Global connections
Global imaginations
Conclusion
Funding
Notes
References
2. Doing class analysis in Singapore’s elite education: unravelling the smokescreen of ‘meritocratic talk’
Introduction
A view into class and stratification in Singapore: whither meritocracy?
Elite education in Singapore and emerging educational stratification
A brief note on methodology
Education–class politics in the media
The national doxa of meritocracy
‘Meritocratic talk’: a vignette from CH
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity: elite Barbadian schools in globalising circumstances
Introduction
The present and the past: sketching the scene
Schools ancient and modern: Old Cloisters and Ardent Arbors
Negotiating tradition and eliteness: the peculiarities of Old Cloisters and Ardent Arbors
The college fair: the rendezvous of the students with education abroad
From scholars to entrepreneurs, or as the neoliberal waves hit the coasts of Barbados
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Privileged girls: the place of femininity and femininity in place
Introduction
A1 girls and global girls
A1 girls
Global girls
A1 girls from elsewhere
Transnationality, mobility and flexibility
Flexible feminism
Conclusion
Funding
Notes
References
5. Race-ing class ladies: lineages of privilege in an elite South African school
Introduction: structures of white domination
Introducing the school
Foundation and empire
From the cosmopolitanism of war to apartheid
We never supported apartheid
The present moment
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
6. The Cyprus game: crossing the boundaries in a divided island
The historical background
Cyprus today
Notes
References
7. Reach for the stars: a constellational approach to ethnographies of elite schools
Introduction
Political culture at an Elite Argentine school
Constellational lineaments
Working with Adorno’s constellation
A Caledonian constellation
Astral uncertainties
References
8. Old elite schools, history and the construction of a new imaginary
Introduction
Colonial formation of the school
Changing times and shifting imaginaries
Towards a nationalist imaginary
Reconciling competing pressures
Uses of history
Conclusion
Note
References
9. A comment on class productions in elite secondary schools in twenty-first-century global context
A peek at the production of new forms of privilege via elite education in the USA
Notes
References

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