Urban Political Economy of Elite Education: International Programs in Chinese Elite Public High Schools

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  • Author(s): Shuning Liu (ORCID Shuning Liu (ORCID 0000-0001-5488-2019)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2024 45(3):396-415.
  • Publication Date:
    2024
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Descriptive
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      20
    • Education Level:
      High Schools
      Secondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Urban Schools; Politics of Education; International Programs; Public Schools; Foreign Countries; Fees; Advantaged; Social Class; Government School Relationship; Neoliberalism; Economics; High Schools
    • Subject Terms:
      China
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/01596306.2024.2335006
    • ISSN:
      0159-6306
      1469-3739
    • Abstract:
      This ethnographic data-driven article investigates the urban political economy of a new form of elite schooling, which is represented by the fee-charging international programs recently established by 'key' public high schools in metro China. Grounding the analysis in Harvey's work on urbanization and neoliberalism, the literature on China's development model, and Bourdieu's theory of capital conversion, this article reveals that the construction of an international program is deeply implicated in the school's social relationships with the state, real estate developers, and urban middle classes. While the program provides wealthy Chinese families with access to international higher education for accumulating desirable capitals at 'world-class' universities, the Chinese elite school generates its own capital. Through theorizing how the creation of the fee-charging international program draws together multiple forms of neoliberal profit-making and multi-scalar capital accumulation, this study adds novel conceptual and empirical insights to the emergent scholarship of elite and international education.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1423750