World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The national and global redefinition of advantage

273 Pages·2015·1.97 MB·English

by  Stephen Ball

World Yearbook of Education 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational
elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and
emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure
reproduce, establish or redefine their position.
The volume is organized around three main issues:
• analyzing the way in which parents, students and graduates in positions of social
advantage use their assets and capitals in relation to educational strategies, and
how these are different for old and new and cultural and economic elites;
• studying how elite institutions have adapted their strategies to take into
account changes in the social structure, in policy and in their institutional
environment and exploring the impact of these strategies on educational
systems at the national and global levels;
• mapping the new global dynamics in elite education and how new forms of
‘international education’ and ‘transnational cultural capital’ as well as new global
educational elite pathways shape elite students’ identities, status and trajectories.
Making use of a social and an institutional approach as well as a focus on prac-
tices and policies, the volume draws on research conducted on secondary schools
and on higher education. In addition, the global contributions within the book
allow for a comparison and contrast of situations in different countries. This
results in a comprehensive picture of common processes and national differences
concerning advantage and excellence and a thorough examination of the impact
of globalization on the strategies, identities and trajectories of elite groups and
individuals alongside more general cultural and economic processes.
Agnès van Zanten is Senior Research Professor at the Observatoire Sociologique
du Changement at Sciences Po, Paris.
Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the
Institute of Education, University of London.
Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin holds a PhD in sociology and works at the Department
of Research Development, Innovation and Experimentation of the French
Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research.
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Hedgaard and Jonathan Tudge ELITES, PRIVILEGE AND
EXCELLENCE: THE NATIONAL
World Yearbook of Education 2010 AND GLOBAL REDEFINITION OF
EDUCATION AND THE ARAB EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGE
WORLD Edited by Agnès van Zanten and
Edited by André E. Mazawi and Ronald Stephen J. Ball with Brigitte
G. Sultana Darchy-Koechlin
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World Yearbook of
Education 2015
Elites, Privilege and
Excellence: The National and Global
Redefinition of Educational Advantage
Edited by
Agnès van Zanten and Stephen J. Ball
with Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin
First published 2015
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Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Series Editors’ Introduction xxi
Introduction 1
Educating Elites: The Changing Dynamics and Meanings
of Privilege and Power 3
AGNÈS VAN ZANTEN
PART I
Class and Family Educational Strategies 13
1 Elites: Some Questions for a New Research Agenda 15
CLAIRE MAXWELL
2 A Family Affair: Reproducing Elite Positions and Preserving
the Ideals of Meritocratic Competition and Youth Autonomy 29
AGNÈS VAN ZANTEN
3 Elite Schools in Buenos Aires: The Role of Tradition and School
Social Networks in the Production and Reproduction of Privilege 43
VICTORIA GESSAGHI AND ALICIA MÉNDEZ
PART II
Elite Institutions in National and Local Contexts 57
4 Changes in Elite Education in the United States 59
SHAMUS RAHMAN KHAN
viii Contents
5 The Changing Strategies of Social Closure in Elite
Education in Brazil 71
ANA MARIA F. ALMEIDA
6 Germany’s Hesitant Approach to Elite Education: Stratification
Processes in German Secondary and Higher Education 82
ULRIKE DEPPE, WERNER HELSPER, REINHARD KRECKEL,
HEINZ-HERMANN KRÜGER AND MANFRED STOCK
7 The Boundaries of Privilege: Elite English Schools’ Geographies
and Depictions of a Local Community 95
RACHEL BROOKS AND JOHANNA WATERS
PART III
The Impact of Globalization on Institutional
and Student Identities 109
8 Globalization and Elite Universities in China 111
TIEN-HUI CHIANG, FAN-HUA MENG AND XIAO-MING TIAN
9 The Discourse of “Asia Rising” in an Elite Indian School 126
FAZAL RIZVI
10 National and International Students’ Definitions of Merit in
French Grandes Écoles 140
BRIGITTE DARCHY-KOECHLIN, HUGUES DRAELANTS
AND ELISE TENRET
11 Globalizing Femininity in Elite Schools for Girls:
Some Paradoxical Failures of Success 153
JANE KENWAY, DIANA LANGMEAD AND DEBBIE EPSTEIN
PART IV
Elite Institutions, Elite Positions and Elite Jobs 167
12 Elite Universities, Elite Schooling and Reproduction in Britain 169
PAUL WAKELING AND MIKE SAVAGE
13 Paths to the Elite in France and in the United States 185
JULES NAUDET
14 Contextually Bound Authoritative Knowledge: A Comparative
Study of British, French and Norwegian Administrative Elites’
Merit and Skills 201
MARTE MANGSET
Contents ix
15 Higher Education, Corporate Talent and the Stratification
of Knowledge Work in the Global Labour Market 217
PHILLIP BROWN, HUGH LAUDER AND JOHNNY SUNG
Conclusion 231
Elites, Education and Identity: An Emerging Research Agenda 233
STEPHEN J. BALL
Index 241