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Publication Date: 2014
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Reach for the Stars: A Constellational Approach to Ethnographies of Elite Schools
Prosser, Howard
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v12 n2 p275-289 2014
This paper offers a method for examining elite schools in a global setting by appropriating Theodor Adorno's constellational approach. I contend that arranging ideas and themes in a non-deterministic fashion can illuminate the social reality of elite schools. Drawing on my own fieldwork at an elite school in Argentina, I suggest that local and global determinants in the school's past contribute to its current, and relatively recent, elite status. Moreover, all of these factors can be arranged to elucidate the school in a history of global capitalism that coincides with Argentine nationalism, British "informal" imperialism and Presbyterian educationalism.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Advantaged, Selective Admission, Ethnography, Educational History, Nationalism, Religious Factors, Foreign Policy, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Politics of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina
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