In this introductory essay to our special issue on elites, we outline some of the major
challenges to research in this area and propose a series of theoretical and methodological …

This book examines the practices and effects of emerging international curriculum programs
established by Chinese elite public high schools and supported by China's New Curriculum …

Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that
schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and …

Internationalisierung stellt nationale Bildungssysteme vor Herausforderungen und macht
auch eine Reflexion der Analysewerkzeuge auf theoretischer wie auf methodologischer …

The purpose of this study was to explore three International School Teachers' experiences
as part of the Global Middle Class (GMC) in China. This group is worthy of study, as their …

Using a societal analysis perspective that articulates structural, institutional and cognitive
dimensions, this article outlines a model examining the contribution made by the schooling …

Today the dominant classes are characterized by their mobility, the geographical spread of
their networks of relations, and more generally by their belonging to a reference space that …

Recently, increases in numbers of international schools have been fuelled by a growth in
numbers of aspirational families selecting them. The perception that international education …

The study considers the opportunities and barriers facing the implementation of virtual
exchange in K-12 education, and the perceptions of access to these opportunities for …

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 …