Globally Elite: Four Domains of Becoming Globally-Oriented within Elite Schools

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Title: Globally Elite: Four Domains of Becoming Globally-Oriented within Elite Schools
Language: English
Authors: Howard, Adam (ORCID 0000-0002-0227-8490)
Source: Educational Review. 2022 74(1):6-24.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Global Approach, Advantaged, Institutional Characteristics, Citizenship Education, Cultural Differences, Prosocial Behavior, Teaching Methods, Interpersonal Relationship, Cultural Capital, Human Capital, Competition, Knowledge Economy, Educational Practices, Ethnography, Social Class, Foreign Countries, International Schools, Institutional Mission, Cross Cultural Studies
Geographic Terms: Jordan, Taiwan, Ghana, Denmark, Chile, Australia
DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2020.1805412
ISSN: 0013-1911
Abstract: Drawing on a multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools across the world, this article explores how elite schools prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world characterised by difference and competition through global citizenship education. In this exploration, I identify the four domains that give meaning to global citizenship education within elite contexts: "cultural," "relational," "emotional," and "material." These domains reveal the ways in which these schools are responding to the challenges of globalisation by providing students opportunities to develop awareness and knowledge of differences, to establish and maintain relationships across differences, to gain a sense of obligation towards others, and to accumulate valuable forms of human and cultural capital. Through globally-oriented practices, students are being prepared to be flexibly mobile, to imagine themselves as leaders within a globalised world and to thrive in the hypercompetitive and unpredictable global knowledge economy. These practices play an important part of elite schools' larger strategy of making and remaking elites.
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Entry Date: 2022
Accession Number: EJ1331617
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Drawing on a multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools across the world, this article explores how elite schools prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world characterised by difference and competition through global citizenship education. In this exploration, I identify the four domains that give meaning to global citizenship education within elite contexts: "cultural," "relational," "emotional," and "material." These domains reveal the ways in which these schools are responding to the challenges of globalisation by providing students opportunities to develop awareness and knowledge of differences, to establish and maintain relationships across differences, to gain a sense of obligation towards others, and to accumulate valuable forms of human and cultural capital. Through globally-oriented practices, students are being prepared to be flexibly mobile, to imagine themselves as leaders within a globalised world and to thrive in the hypercompetitive and unpredictable global knowledge economy. These practices play an important part of elite schools' larger strategy of making and remaking elites.
ISSN:0013-1911
DOI:10.1080/00131911.2020.1805412