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This is the first international reference work to map out how
Pierre Bourdieu has been used in educational research. Written by
scholars based in Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, New
Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA, the handbook provides a
unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used
and adapted in educational research globally. The book will be
useful for those who may only have a cursory knowledge of
Bourdieu’s tools as well as those who are already familiar with
Bourdieu’s work. The chapters cover a wide range of topics
including educational leadership, teacher preparation, space/place,
educational policy, literacy education, marginalised students, and
student mobility.
This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents'
engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education
market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their
children - under today's shifting global conditions. Throughout,
the book tackles two important, albeit uncomfortable questions: Why
does whiteness hold the highest possible value in postcolonial
societies such as Nigeria? And, more importantly, why do black
people accept the hegemonic discourse that West/white is best?
Combining the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz
Fanon, the book reveals 'Whiteness' as a highly valuable form of
cultural and symbolic capital that plays a crucial role in the
formation of, and struggle for, elite status and distinction in
modern-day Nigeria. Drawing on rare qualitative data sets along
with postcolonial literatures, the book reveals how British
whiteness is used by those working at and for British private
schools in Nigeria (BPS-NIG) as an informal but powerful mechanism
of 'quality' control, and in constructing the image of
'world-class' educational establishments.
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