Elite Girls’ 21 St Century Schooling in Scotland

Habitus Clivé in a Shifting Landscape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8404669
AutoresJack Forbes (0000-0002-3820-096X, University of Stirling, autor de correspondencia), Claire Maxwell (0000-0002-1266-8011), Elspeth Mccartney (0000-0002-6234-0348, University of Stirling)
Año2021
Volumen69
Número3
Páginas287-306
Fecha de publicación2021-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071005.2020.1812509
OpenAlexW3079457726
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

Our paper analyses data from four Heads of elite fee-charging girls’ schools in Scotland, focusing on how two social landscape changes – changing pupil demographics and pressures on schools’ charitable status – may have reshaped the schools’ institutional habitus. Following Bourdieu, we examine this question through the concept of habitus clivé. Shifting national-scale demographics and institutional pressures to fill expensive pupil places has generated a more diverse student population both in terms of academic ability and cultural background. Maintaining charitable status has, in turn, involved opening their space to non-school others, and developing interactions with the broader community. Insights are offered on how, despite these significant changes, schools’ current habitus commitments continue to align with their founding principles, while also adapting to these new contextual realities, as they seek to ensure their girl pupil subjects can succeed in the 21stcentury

Cultural capital · Elite · Geography · Habitus · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics