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'Guarding the gate': the hidden practices behind admission to an Elite Traditional International School in Japan.
- Source :
- International Studies in Sociology of Education; Dec2023, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p1038-1060, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper explores the admissions practices of an 'Elite Traditional International School' (ETIS) in a large city in Japan. The school is seeing falling enrolment from its traditional clients e.g.'transnational capitalist class' families working for Embassies and its alumnus, whilst attracting an emergent aspiring locally-based body of parents representative of a 'global middle class' likely seeking advantages, and a new, distinct identity. The resultant tension, between dealing with market-led change (reflecting the reality) and trying to maintain and protect legitimacy as an ideologically driven institution serving the privileged 'international community' (reflecting the vision), creates a platform (the nomos) for admission practices that are potentially biased and largely hidden. Utilising a methodology grounded in the work of Pierre Bourdieu we identify how the school adopts a number of 'unwritten rules', to 'guard the gate'. Moreover, the imagined 'international community' emerges as a major field of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTERNATIONAL schools
SCHOOL admission
PARENT attitudes
METHODOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09620214
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Studies in Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174160965
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.1981771