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Suresh Babu, Savitha; Mahajan, Anupama – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
This paper offers an ethnographic account of how Golden Harvest International School in Bengaluru branded itself as both 'International' and 'Indian', by elaborating discursive practices within the school. Drawing upon scholarship that has sought to delineate the ways in which globally hyper-mobile Indians construct a distinctive cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Global Approach
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Gardner-McTaggart, Alexander – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
For the 'global middle classes', cultural reproduction increasingly involves the international school as they promise considerable distinction [Bourdieu, P. 1984. "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press] granting University passage past Anglo gate-keepers. This paper draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, International Schools, Educational Policy
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This research investigated educational pathways into a Global Middle Class characterised by professional or managerial careers and cosmopolitan sensibilities. The focus was International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) alumni with upper-middle-class backgrounds at 'world-class' universities in Hong Kong. The first objective was to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Advanced Placement Programs, Reputation, Universities