Elite Schools

<p>Geography matters to elite schools — to how they function and flourish to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate themselves. They mark and market place. This collection as a whole reads elite schools through a spatial lens. It offers fresh lines of inquiry to the ‘new sociology of elite schools.’ Collectively the authors examine elite schools and systems in different parts of the world. They highlight the ways that these schools and their clients operate within diverse local national regional and global contexts in order to shape their own and their clients’ privilege and prestige. The collection also points to the uses of the transnational as a resource via the International Baccalaureate study tours and the discourses of global citizenship. Building on research about social class meritocracy privilege and power in education it offers inventive critical lenses and insights particularly from the ‘Global South.’ As such it is an intervention in global power/knowledge geographies. </p>