Re/producing the global middle class
International Baccalaureate alumni at 'world-class' universities in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2918052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewan Wright (0000-0003-2313-6181, Department of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Moosung Lee (0000-0003-4206-9893, University of Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 682-696 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2019.1573880 |
| OpenAlex | W2912521287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 23 |
This research investigated educational pathways into a Global Middle Class characterised by professional or managerial careers and cosmopolitan sensibilities. The focus was International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) alumni with upper-middle-class backgrounds at ‘world-class’ universities in Hong Kong. The first objective was to investigate if and how the education of IBDP alumni at Hong Kong universities shapes self-perceptions of cosmopolitan sensibilities, university experiences, and economic futures. The second objective was to investigate how the IBDP and Hong Kong universities offer an educational pathway for the existing Global Middle Class to reproduce their social position and for local families to enter the Global Middle Class. Interview findings illuminated how cosmopolitan sensibilities meant that the students may be well-positioned for careers and lifestyles of the Global Middle Class. Nevertheless, there were paradoxes of cosmopolitan sensibilities as the students perceived a lack of belonging to their universities and a disconnection with the local society
Disconnection · Futures contract · Global citizenship · Middle class · Political science · Social class · Sociology · World class · Engineering · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law
Differentiated instruction
Perceptions of “The Gift” amongst scholarship students at an elite international school in a major South East Asian City
Glocalising Education
The promised capitals of international high school programmes and the global field of higher education
International or Internationalised? Exploring issues faced by international schools in local markets
The crypto-growth of “International Schooling”
The influx of International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes into local education systems in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea
Parental engagement in international schools in Cyprus
Threat or necessity
Between the flag and the globe
Straddling the global and national
Admitting otherwise
International students in Australia
The turning tide of the International Baccalaureate in China
Legitimacy, power, and aesthetics, in the International Baccalaureate
Experiments in being global
The clustering in ‘global universities’ of graduates from ‘Elite Traditional International Schools’
How the commodification of education impacts Local and Finnish teachers’ identity when working in a Finnish international school in Asia
Between localization and internationalization
Guarding the gate’
The United World College experience and its framing
Field theory and education
Schooling (for) Japanese children in cosmopolitan Singapore
The alternative education pathway to higher education in non-anglophone contexts
The transnational university pathway of the emergent ‘global middle class
‘Beyond the cosmopolitan bubble’
Paradoxes in intercultural communication, acculturation strategies and adaptation outcomes
Paradox of success
Social stratifying Kazakhstan
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals
A geopolitics of knowledge analysis of higher education internationalisation in Kazakhstan
Mobile and Elite
Reining in the International
National cultural capital as out of reach for transnationally mobile Israeli professional families – making a ‘return home’ fraught
Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education
Does the international Baccalaureate 'work' as an alternative to mainstream schooling? Perceptions of university students in Hong Kong
Urban political economy of elite education
Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas
International English language schools in the Global South(s)
Re/producing the global middle class
Sisters, Bottoms, and 'Exotic Combo
The Transnational Capitalist Class
Transnational Capitalist Class
What is international about International Schools? An institutional legitimacy perspective
The global middle class and school choice
The worldwide trend to high participation higher education
Staying ahead of the game
Transnational spaces of education
Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility
Massification of higher education and challenges for graduate employment and social mobility
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
Narratives of educational transition and learner identity
De-coupling or remaining closely coupled to ‘home’
Elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Schools and Inter-cultural Understanding in China
Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital
Education, opportunity and the prospects for social mobility
Youth mobilities in elite schools
The International Baccalaureate and a framework for class consciousness
The appeal of the International Baccalaureate in Australia's educational market
Re/producing the global middle class
Creating Cosmopolitan Subjects
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |