Global Liberalism and Elite Schooling in Argentina

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
FOREWORD by Jane Kenway
INTRODUCTION
I WORLD-CLASS PRACTICES
ONE A Constellational Approach to the Study of Elite Schooling
TWO Articulating the Sociology of Elite Education
and Global Ethnography
THREE Economy of Eliteness: Consuming Educational Advantage
II HISTORICAL FORCES
FOUR The Caledonian School’s Establishment:
Empire, Nation, School
FIVE The Caledonian School’s Ascendancy:
Authoritarianism, Populism, Post-Neoliberalism
III POLITICAL CULTURE
SIX "Drunk on Capitalism:" Teaching History to Rich Kids
SEVEN Moulding Plastic Liberalism:
Political Discussion during an Election Year
EIGHT Winners Helping Losers: The Comforts of Service Learning
CONCLUSION
AFTERWORD ON METHOD
REFERENCES

About the author

Howard Prosser is a lecturer in Education at Monash University, Australia. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Western Australia and a PhD in Education from Monash University. He co-edited In the Realm of the Senses: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege (2015).

Summary

A response to Argentina’s shifting political climate, Global Liberalism and Elite Schooling in Argentina reveals how elite schooling encourages the hoarding of educational advantage and reinforces social inequalities.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Prosser, Howard (Monash University Prosser, Prosser Howard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138211254
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21125-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Education in Global Context; Education in Global Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Argentina, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy