New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

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Jane Kenway (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) Aaron Koh (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

Jane Kenway (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), Aaron Koh (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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Routledge
21 January 2019

Moral & social purpose of education; Independent schools, private education

Elite schools have an intriguing capacity to endure and adapt in the face of social, cultural and political change. They help both to reproduce power, privilege and status and also to regularly produce them afresh. The intricacies involved, over time and place, have attracted the abiding empirical, methodological and conceptual interest of sociologists and historians; recently, anthropologists and geographers have also responded to their allure. Collectively, the focus of such studies is usually on class making and the manner in which gender and race/ethnicity, place and mobility overlap and are part of the mix.

This edited collection is framed around the notion of a ‘new sociology of elite education’, but it speaks into this wider space of inquiry in which studies of such schools are becoming more interdisciplinary. In so doing it brings together a new array of conceptual and theoretical tools while also deepening those that already exist. The contributions examine various configurations of contemporary class making and their attendant politics. These explorations are situated in the specificities of geographical locales where the complex dynamics of both national/local educational priorities and global/transnational forces are played out. In addition to showing how these dynamics put pressure on elite schools to redefine them, the book’s diverse international focus shines a light on new and emerging global patterns. This book was originally published as a special issue of British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Edited by: Jane Kenway (Monash University Melbourne Australia), Aaron Koh (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780367143220
ISBN 10: 0367143224
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 21 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.