Cultivating national leaders in an elite school

Deploying the transnational in the national interest

Bibliographic Data

ID12272001
AuthorsAdeline Koh (0000-0001-9883-3227, National Institute of Education), Jane Kenway (0000-0003-1043-0218, Monash University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume22
Issue4
Pages333-351
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Studies in Sociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0962-0214 • E-ISSN: 1747-5066
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09620214.2012.745342
OpenAlexW2053928330
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited31

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

Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Curriculum · Educational leadership · Elite · Ethnography · Globalization · Habitus · Multinational corporation · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · State (computer science · Asian Studies and History · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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