Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege (Education in Global Context) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138779415 ISBN 13: 9781138779419

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Aaron Koh is Associate Professor of Literacy and English Education at Griffith University, Australia.

Jane Kenway is Professorial Fellow with the Australian Research Council, Professor of Education at Monash University, and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138779415
• ISBN 13: 9781138779419
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Koh Aaron