Assured Optimism in a Scottish Girls' School: Habitus and the (Re)production of Global Privilege

Autor/inn/en	Forbes, Joan; Lingard, Bob
Titel	Assured Optimism in a Scottish Girls' School: Habitus and the (Re)production of Global Privilege
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36 (2015) 1, S.116-136 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2014.967839
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; Females; Private Schools; Single Sex Schools; Interviews; Teacher Attitudes; Student Surveys; Focus Groups; Gender Differences; Social Class; Futures (of Society); Foreign Countries; Positive Attitudes; Advantaged; Career Development; Global Approach; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Weibliches Geschlecht; Private school; Privatschule; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerbefragung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ausland; Berufsentwicklung; Globales Denken
Abstract	This paper examines how high levels of social-cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflected by gender and social class, constitute a particular school habitus of "assured optimism" at an elite Scottish girls' school. In Bourdieuian terms, Dalrymple is a "forcing ground" for the "intense cultivation" of a particular privileging habitus. The paper analyses the "institutional" habitus of this particular private girls' school, drawing on headteacher interviews and student survey and focus group data, and relevant documents. The school is currently re-positioning itself to educate girls for global professional futures through the production of a desired habitus and certain spatio-temporalities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10