Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege

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Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS Series Editor’s Overview Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading the Dynamics of Educational Privilege Through a Spatial Lens 1 Becoming the Man: Redefining Asian Masculinity in an Elite Boarding School 2 Capitalising on Well-Roundedness: Chinese Students’ Cultural Mediations in an Elite Australian School 3 The Emergence of Elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Schools in China: A ‘Skyboxification’ Perspective 4 Elite Schoolboys Becoming Global Citizens: Examining the Practice of Habitus 5 The Joy of Privilege: Elite Private School Online Promotions and the Promise of Happiness 6 Old Boy Networks: The Relationship Between Elite Schooling, Social Capital, and Positions of Power in British Society 7 Exclusive Consumers: The Discourse of Privilege in Elite Indian School Websites 8 The Insiders: Changing Forms of Reproduction in Education 9 Can Geographies of Privilege and Oppression Combine?: Elite Education in Northern Portugal 10 “We Are Not Elite Schools”: Studying the Symbolic Capital of Swiss Boarding Schools 11 Tourism, Educational Travel, and Transnational Capital: From the Grand Tour to the ‘Year Abroad’ among Sciences Po-Paris Students 12 Schools and Families: School Choice and Formation of Elites in Present-Day Argentina 13 The Economy of Eliteness: Consuming Educational Advantage Contributors Index