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Direct linkYe, Rebecca; Nylander, Erik – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
In this article, we examine conceptualisations of luck evoked by a select group of elite students studying in Oxbridge, when accounting for their academic success. The emphasis on luck in their narratives is categorised into three themes. The students linked their luckiness to deservedness, used luck as a way to express humbleness, and attributed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Selective Admission, Advantaged
Lu, Luke – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
This study is an attempt at better understanding the education choices of top-performing students in elite schooling. It applies a 'glonacal' framework (Maxwell 2018, "Changing Spaces -- The Reshaping of (Elite) Education Through Internationalisation." In "Elite Education and Internationalization: From the Early Years Into Higher…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Undergraduate Students, Scholarships, Nationalism
Debs, Mira; Cheung, Hoi Shan – Comparative Education, 2021
Parents around the globe are increasingly understood to contribute to educational inequality through their choice of schools. This important critique risks minimising the way choice systems may favour certain parents over others. A case study of Singapore and its primary school enrolment process helps illustrate how parent's interactions with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, School Choice, Discourse Analysis, News Reporting
Koh, Aaron – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This paper highlights how a small group of minority students worked to take advantage of the privileges available once they were admitted to an elite school. The argument proposed is that, unlike their more privileged peers, minority students who have made it through the gateways of elite schools have to work out a salvation of privilege to level…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, Academic Aspiration
Chua, Vincent – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper utilises ideas of correspondence as a way of thinking about intersections between school and work in Singapore's developmental state. Whereas the principle of correspondence predicts segregated patterns of association between school and work, this paper shows how a developmentalist form of political economy gives rise to crosscutting,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Prediction, Correlation
Kenway, Jane; Fahey, Johannah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
How are elite schools caught up in the changing processes of globalisation? Is globalisation a new phenomenon for them? This paper focuses on the globalising practices that selected elite schools adopt. It also explores how globalisation is impacting on the social purposes of elite schools, which conventionally have been to serve privileged social…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Selective Admission, Advantaged, Social Status
