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Pere Ayling – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Education-UK and British private schools more specifically are often framed as a global brand of 'world-class' quality. However, the increased competition within the international education market has meant British private schools cannot rest on their laurels but instead must continue to project their 'world-classness' in a way that does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Reputation, Whites
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Karen Lillie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Elite schools, long tasked with creating a future national elite, often now find themselves competing in a global education market. This article explores how one such school, in Switzerland, articulates with the global imaginary of its local geography -- in particular, with images of luxury tourism and safety -- to appeal to a globally wealthy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Boarding Schools
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Tilly Clough – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
In England and Wales, fee-charging independent schools can be legally classified as charities and, therefore, receive associated benefits, the most obvious being taxation advantages. The high fees charged by many of these schools create financial exclusivity, which, it will be seen, confers significant social and cultural capital to those who can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competitive Selection, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
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Sheehan, Helen; Riddle, Stewart – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper examines the utility of Campbell's narrative construction of 'the hero's journey' as a conceptual apparatus to understand how international students from Confucian heritage cultures navigate their experiences in Western schooling systems like Australia. The hero's journey framework was used to investigate the commonalities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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Edmond, Nadia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Recent policy emphasis on market mechanisms to drive up the performance of education systems has resulted in rising fees and increased competition in higher education in England, and in the creation of different types of self-governing state-funded schools run independently of municipal authority in compulsory schooling. University sponsorship of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Commercialization, Compulsory Education, Universities
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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
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Schatz, Monika; Popovic, Ana; Dervin, Fred – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Since the recent global paradigm shift in the governance of higher education toward business and marketing, internationally competitive education is increasingly considered as an asset for governments. Consequently, governments started to invest in education branding and marketing their educational systems. In Finland, national interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Universities
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Ha, Phan Le; Li, Binghui – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
The topic of silence and "the Chinese learner" has been extensively studied often in relation to cross-cultural adjustment, intercultural issues, learning styles, language ability and differences of classroom expectations. These studies have often led to recommendations to understand silence and "the Chinese learner" in more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Asians, Speech Communication
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Allen, Kim; Mendick, Heather – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
In this article, we explore the question of how celebrity operates in young people's everyday lives, thus contributing to the urgent need to address celebrity's social function. Drawing on data from three studies in England on young people's perspectives on their educational and work futures, we show how celebrity operates as a classed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Popular Culture
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Gandin, Luis Armando – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper analyzes the case of Porto Alegre, Brazil as a counter-hegemonic global city. Porto Alegre is a city with no particular relevance to neoliberal globalization that, nevertheless, was launched to a global scale by transformations in local governance. New mechanisms of deliberative democracy captured the attention of social actors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Economic Development, Educational Policy
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Yu, Tianlong – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2010
In this article, I touch upon the complex and largely ignored controversy surrounding the Tibet question. Casting a critical eye on the "official" or dominant stature of the Dalai Lama in the West, I examine the socio-cultural construction of the common view of him. Specifically, I explore the question: what social discourses have…
Descriptors: World Affairs, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Meadmore, Daphne; Meadmore, Peter – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
This paper examines how prominent private schools in Australia are performing in a market context according to the tenets of performativity. From a discourse analysis of promotional materials that include prospectuses, advertisements, and school publications, it considers the "value-addedness" that these schools purport to offer. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Accountability, Reputation
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Gonick, Marnina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
This paper investigates changing modes of femininity. It asks: What are the discourses and discursive practices within which new femininities are constructed? What are the social conditions in which they emerge? How are these negotiated and lived by girls? What do these stories tell us about the complications of subject formation and what it means…
Descriptors: Femininity, Social Change, Human Geography, Social Environment
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Brady, Patrick – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
The adolescent peer group constitutes a vital component of the institutional culture of the contemporary secondary school. Formed among students and reinforced by administrators and teachers, it takes the form of a structured status hierarchy whose membership and boundaries are clearly understood within the school community. Individual students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Student Subcultures