1st Edition
Elite Education International perspectives
Introduction
Claire Maxwell & Peter Aggleton
Part I - Developments in the Anglophone world: England, Scotland, Australia and North America
The historical construction of an elite education in England
Claire Maxwell and Peter Aggleton
‘Independent’ in Scotland: elite by education?
Joan Forbes and Gaby Weiner
Elite education in the Australian context
Sue Saltmarsh
‘Private schools in the public system’: school choice and the production of elite status in the USA and Canada
Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Julie Garlen Maudlin
The future of elite research in education - Commentary
Stephen J. Ball
Part II - European perspectives: similarities and differences in Scandinavia, France and Germany
A sound foundation? Financial elite families and egalitarian schooling in Norway
Helene Aarseth
Elite education in Sweden – a contradiction in terms?
Mikael Börjesson, Donald Broady, Tobias Dalberg and Ida Lidegran
Elite education in Germany? Trends, developments and challenges
Ulrike Deppe and Heinz-Hermann Krüger
Promoting equality and reproducing privilege in elite educational tracks in France
Agnès van Zanten
Elite education and class reproduction - Commentary
Magne Flemmen
Part III - emerging financial powers in Latin America, Asia and Africa
‘Eliteness’ in Chinese schooling: towards an ethnographic approach
Peidong Yang
‘Eliteness’ and elite schooling in contemporary Nigeria
Pere Ayling
The education of Brazilian elites in the 21st century: new opportunities or new forms of distinction?
Maria Alice Nogueira and Maria Teresa G. Alves
Servicing Elite Interests: Elite Education in Post-Neoliberal Argentina - Commentary
Howard Prosser
Elite education systems in the emerging financial powers
Julia Resnik
Afterword
Claire Maxwell and Peter Aggleton
Biography
Claire Maxwell is a reader in sociology of education at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
Peter Aggleton is Scientia Professor in Education and Health in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Australia. He is a visiting professorial fellow in education at UCL Institute of Education in London, and a visiting professor in global health in the School of Global Studies at Sussex University, UK.
