Elite Education

Claire Maxwell is a reader in sociology of education at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.Peter Aggleton is Scientia Professor in Education and Health in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Australia. He is a visiting professorial fellow in education at UCL Institute of Education in London, and a visiting professor in global health in the School of Global Studies at Sussex University, UK.

• Introduction Claire Maxwell & Peter AggletonPart I - Developments in the Anglophone world: England, Scotland, Australia and North America The historical construction of an elite education in England Claire Maxwell and Peter Aggleton‘Independent’ in Scotland: elite by education? Joan Forbes and Gaby WeinerElite education in the Australian context Sue Saltmarsh‘Private schools in the public system’: school choice and the production of elite status in the USA and Canada Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Julie Garlen MaudlinThe future of elite research in education - CommentaryStephen J. BallPart II - European perspectives: similarities and differences in Scandinavia, France and Germany A sound foundation? Financial elite families and egalitarian schooling in NorwayHelene AarsethElite education in Sweden – a contradiction in terms? Mikael Börjesson, Donald Broady, Tobias Dalberg and Ida LidegranElite education in Germany? Trends, developments and challenges Ulrike Deppe and Heinz-Hermann KrügerPromoting equality and reproducing privilege in elite educational tracks in FranceAgnès van ZantenElite education and class reproduction - CommentaryMagne FlemmenPart III - emerging financial powers in Latin America, Asia and Africa ‘Eliteness’ in Chinese schooling: towards an ethnographic approach Peidong Yang‘Eliteness’ and elite schooling in contemporary Nigeria Pere AylingThe education of Brazilian elites in the 21st century: new opportunities or new forms of distinction? Maria Alice Nogueira and Maria Teresa G. Alves Servicing Elite Interests: Elite Education in Post-Neoliberal Argentina - CommentaryHoward ProsserElite education systems in the emerging financial powers Julia ResnikAfterword Claire Maxwell and Peter Aggleton