Schools, schooling and elite status in English education – changing configurations?
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Schools, schooling and elite status in English education – changing configurations? / Maxwell, Claire; Aggleton, Peter.
I: L'Annee Sociologique, Bind 66, Nr. 1, 2016, s. 147-170.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Schools, schooling and elite status in English education – changing configurations?
AU - Maxwell, Claire
AU - Aggleton, Peter
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Drawing on findings from a longitudinal study of four private schools in one geographical area in England, this paper seeks to extend understand- ings of how these schools differentially seek to position themselves as ’elite’. Findings highlight the continuing legacy of the Great Schools (private boarding-schools) of 18th and 19th century England in shaping contemporary and modern-day practices. An emphasis on academic excellence and the development of the whole person could be found in each of the schools studied. However, the increasingly competitive (global) education market means that individual schools must actively re-interpret these elite markers to engage more directly with the social group fractions they see as comprising their core recruitment constituencies.
AB - Drawing on findings from a longitudinal study of four private schools in one geographical area in England, this paper seeks to extend understand- ings of how these schools differentially seek to position themselves as ’elite’. Findings highlight the continuing legacy of the Great Schools (private boarding-schools) of 18th and 19th century England in shaping contemporary and modern-day practices. An emphasis on academic excellence and the development of the whole person could be found in each of the schools studied. However, the increasingly competitive (global) education market means that individual schools must actively re-interpret these elite markers to engage more directly with the social group fractions they see as comprising their core recruitment constituencies.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - elite education
KW - education markets
M3 - Journal article
VL - 66
SP - 147
EP - 170
JO - L'Annee Sociologique
JF - L'Annee Sociologique
SN - 0066-2399
IS - 1
ER -
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