This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites
and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups …

Existing research and policy on international students' study-to-work transition fall short of a
temporal theoretical perspective that is sensitive to the fluid and class-stratified nature of …

The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless
category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types …

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 …

In his influential studies of the relationship between cultural capital and social inequality,
Pierre Bourdieu (1984) famously argued in the French case that as educational …

This paper examines factors driving the agentic practices of young women who are privately
educated. The analysis informing this paper comes from a three-year study, in which 91 …

Private schools have long played a crucial role in male elite formation but their importance to
women's trajectories is less clear. In this paper, we explore the relationship between girls' …

The paper examines processes of cultural production and reproduction among members of
the elite and upper-middle classes. Drawing on findings from a study of private education in …

After a period of relative oblivion since the 1980s, the study of the educational practices of
elite groups and institutions has gained new momentum since the turn of the century (van …

Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities, Elite
Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and …