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Aline Courtois; Michael Donnelly – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This article focuses on the relationship between elite British boarding schools and the overseas branches ('satellites') that they have established around the world. While British schools are categorised as charities, the satellites are operated as commercial ventures through subsidiaries. The UK-based schools can thus profit from the export of…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Boarding Schools, Taxes, Trusts (Financial)
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Muñoz-García, Ana Luisa – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This article focuses on the ways in which international students from Chile narrate their experiences in the US, and the extent to which mobility across national borders reshapes social class understandings and privilege. To complete this study, I conducted 13 in-depth interviews and a focus group with five Chilean graduate international students…
Descriptors: Social Class, International Education, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries
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Sriprakash, Arathi; Proctor, Helen; Hu, Betty – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article explores parents' use of private tutoring services for their primary school children in Sydney, Australia's largest city. Using Bernstein's theories of invisible and visible pedagogies, we look, through the eyes of a small group of middle-class Chinese-background interviewees, at the tensions between certain pedagogic forms associated…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Elementary School Students, Advantaged, Foreign Countries