Cultivating National Leaders in an Elite School: Deploying the Transnational in the National Interest

Autor/inn/en	Koh, Aaron; Kenway, Jane
Titel	Cultivating National Leaders in an Elite School: Deploying the Transnational in the National Interest
Quelle	In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 22 (2012) 4, S.333-351 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0962-0214
DOI	10.1080/09620214.2012.745342
Schlagwörter	Leadership; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Private Schools; Educational Environment; Educational Sociology; Global Approach; Leadership Training; High School Students; High Schools; Values Education; Asia; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Führung; Führungsposition; Ethnografie; Ausland; Private school; Privatschule; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Globales Denken; Führungslehre; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Werterziehung; Asien; Singapur
Abstract	This paper explores the leadership cultivation practices of one elite school in Singapore. We point to the links between the habitus of the Singapore state and that of the school showing how different components of the school's leadership curriculum deploy the transnational in order to produce leaders for the nation. In essence, we argue that the school is involved in a form of tactical globalisation which matches neatly that of the state itself. We situate this study in the sociology of elite education with a view to contributing to two new lines of inquiry: the first about elite schools in Asia and the second about elite schools and globalisation. In so doing, we deploy a Bourdieusian perspective while also asking how successfully his concepts travel to the Singaporean context. The paper draws on a larger multinational, multi-sited ethnographic study of elite schools and globalisation. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10