Elite Schools in Globalising Circumstances : New Conceptual Directions and Connections (Paperback)

Introduction: understanding the re-articulations of privilege over time and space Cameron McCarthy and Jane Kenway 1. Staying ahead of the game: the globalising practices of elite schools Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey 2. Doing class analysis in Singapore’s elite education: unravelling the smokescreen of ‘meritocratic talk’ Aaron Koh 3. The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity: elite Barbadian schools in globalising circumstances Cameron McCarthy, Ergin Bulut, Michelle Castro, Koeli Goel and Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer 4. Privileged girls: the place of femininity and femininity in place Johannah Fahey 5. Race-ing class ladies: lineages of privilege in an elite South African school Debbie Epstein 6. The Cyprus game: crossing the boundaries in a divided island Matthew Shaw 7. Reach for the stars: a constellational approach to ethnographies of elite schools Howard Prosser 8. Old elite schools, history and the construction of a new imaginary Fazal Rizvi 9. A comment on class productions in elite secondary schools in twenty-first-century global context Lois Weis