1st Edition
World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage
Introduction
Educating Elites: The Changing Dynamics and Meanings of Privilege and Power
Agnès van Zanten
Part 1
Class and Family Educational Strategies
1. Elites: Some Questions for a New Research Agenda
Claire Maxwell
2. A Family Affair: Reproducing Elite Positions and Preserving the Ideals of Meritocratic Competition and Youth Autonomy
Agnès van Zanten
3. Elite Families and Schools in Buenos Aires: The Role of Tradition and School Social Networks in the Production and Reproduction of Privilege
Victoria Gessaghi and Alicia Méndez
Part 2
Elite Institutions in National and Local Contexts
4. Changes in Elite Education in the United States
Shamus Rahman Khan
5. The Changing Strategies of Social Closure in Elite Education in Brazil
Ana Maria F. Almeida
6. Germany’s Hesitant Approach to Elite Education. Stratification Processes in German Secondary and Higher Education
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
Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters
Part 3
The Impact of Globalization on Institutional and Student Identities
8. Globalisation and Elite Universities in China
Tien-Hui Chiang, FanHua Meng, Fugui Ye and Luo Yan, Tsinghua University
9. The Discourse of 'Asia Rising' in an Elite Indian School
Fazal Rizvi
10. National and International Students’ Definition of Merit in French Grandes Ecoles
Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin, Hugues Draelants and Elise Tenret
11. Globalizing Femininity in Elite Schools for Girls: Some Paradoxical Failures of Success
Jane Kenway, Diana Langmead and Debbie Epstein
Part 4
Elite Institutions, Elite positions and Elite Jobs
12. Elite Universities, Elite Schooling and Reproduction in Britain
Paul Wakeling and Mike Savage
13. Paths to the Elite in France and in the United States
Jules Naudet
14. Contextually-Bound Authoritative Knowledge: A Comparative Study of British, French and Norwegian Administrative Elites’ Merit and Skills
Marte Mangset
15. Higher Education, Corporate Talent and the Stratification of Knowledge Work in the Global Labour Market
Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Johnny Sung
Conclusion
Elites, Education and Identity. An Emerging Research Agenda
Stephen Ball
Biography
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.
