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New Sociologies of Elite Schooling, Paperback / softback Book

New Sociologies of Elite Schooling Paperback / softback

Edited by Jane (Monash University, Victoria, Australia) Kenway, Aaron (Griffith University, Australia) Koh

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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.

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