Name: An Elite Education. How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School
Price: 29.69 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Emma Taylor
ISBN: 9780691264257

portada An Elite Education. How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School

An Elite Education. How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

Emma Taylor

Año

2026

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.60 x 14.00 cm

ISBN13

9780691264257

An Elite Education. How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School

Emma Taylor (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Dura

Libro Nuevo Origen: España

Envío: 5 a 7 días háb.

31,25 €29,69 €

-5%

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 9 unidades

29,69 €

Llega entre el 27 Jul y el 31 Jul a Provincia de Madrid. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "An Elite Education. How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School"

An examination of the making of privilege at one of Britain’s top boys’ schoolsAlumni of Britain’s elite schools are consistently overrepresented in positions of power and influence. It is no surprise, then, that elite schools play a pivotal role in reproducing inequality. In An Elite Education, Emma Taylor draws on years of immersive ethnographic research and teaching experience at one of Britain’s leading private boys’ schools to highlight how these institutions cultivate the dispositions that propel students into elite universities and professions. Taylor finds that elite schools provide a forgiving, flexible and exclusive training ground, enabling students to push boundaries, bend rules and negotiate with those in authority. She argues that this ability to navigate elite spaces with confidence—which she conceptualises as “audacity”—is a carefully cultivated form of privilege that is frequently mistaken for merit. Behind the formal façade of architecture, traditions and rituals lies a messy web of everyday interactions through which students learn to assert themselves without fear of consequence. An Elite Education ultimately calls for a deeper interrogation of the taken-for-granted dispositions that continue to shape access to opportunity in Britain.