Elite Schools and 21st-Century Class-Making
Elite Schools and 21st-Century Class-Making
- Jane KenwayJane KenwayMonash University
- , and Diana LangmeadDiana LangmeadDeakin University Education
Summary
Whatever else it involves, elite schools’ core work is to help to make and remake class through education. Here, we provide an overview of their everyday practices of class-making and present ways of categorizing them: the spatialization of their social imaginations, their mobilization of feelings, and their class-based disavowals. These practices are well established in the local (national/state) context, and we devote the first part of the article to these. In the second part, we shift the angle of scrutiny and outline such schools’ class-making practices in the contemporary global context.
Subjects
- Education and Society
