Provoking Elite Schools' Defences: An Antistrophon

Autor/in	Prosser, Howard
Titel	Provoking Elite Schools' Defences: An Antistrophon
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41 (2020) 4, S.532-544 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2018.1509840
Schlagwörter	Selective Admission; Institutional Characteristics; Social Bias; Ideology; Knowledge Level; Social Influences; Success; Ability; Social Systems; Values Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsselektion; Ideologie; Wissensbasis; Sozialer Einfluss; Erfolg; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Social system; Soziales System; Werterziehung
Abstract	Elite schools, both private and public, consistently top metrics of success around the world. This article mobilises an antistrophon -- turning an argument against itself -- to expose elite schools' rhetorical defences. As part of this device, four provocations are offered -- knowledge, excellence, merit, values -- that coincide with elite schools' identity. These provocations are explored in light of a growing global corpus of scholarship on elite schools that consistently reveals how they reinforce their status and justify social inequality. Implicit to the argument is the idea that non-elite schools and school systems imitate such practices. It concludes by suggesting elite schools' shrewdness in obscuring their unjust exclusivity must be continually illuminated, scrutinised, and challenged if social inequality is to be combatted. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01