World Yearbook of Education 2015

Agnès van Zanten is Senior Research Professor at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement at Sciences Po, Paris.Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin holds a PhD in sociology and works at the Department of Research Development, Innovation and Experimentation of the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research.

• Introduction Educating Elites: The Changing Dynamics and Meanings of Privilege and PowerAgnès van ZantenPart 1Class and Family Educational Strategies1. Elites: Some Questions for a New Research AgendaClaire Maxwell2. A Family Affair: Reproducing Elite Positions and Preserving the Ideals of Meritocratic Competition and Youth Autonomy Agnès van Zanten3. Elite Families and Schools in Buenos Aires: The Role of Tradition and School Social Networks in the Production and Reproduction of Privilege Victoria Gessaghi and Alicia MéndezPart 2 Elite Institutions in National and Local Contexts4. Changes in Elite Education in the United States Shamus Rahman Khan5. The Changing Strategies of Social Closure in Elite Education in Brazil Ana Maria F. Almeida6. Germany’s Hesitant Approach to Elite Education. Stratification Processes in German Secondary and Higher Education Ulrike Deppe, Werner Helsper, Reinhard Kreckel, Heinz-Hermann Krüger and Manfred Stock7. The Boundaries of Privilege: Elite English schools’ Geographies and Depictions of a Local Community Rachel Brooks and Johanna WatersPart 3The Impact of Globalization on Institutional and Student Identities8. Globalisation and Elite Universities in China Tien-Hui Chiang, FanHua Meng, Fugui Ye and Luo Yan, Tsinghua University 9. The Discourse of 'Asia Rising' in an Elite Indian School Fazal Rizvi10. National and International Students’ Definition of Merit in French Grandes Ecoles Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin, Hugues Draelants and Elise Tenret11. Globalizing Femininity in Elite Schools for Girls: Some Paradoxical Failures of Success Jane Kenway, Diana Langmead and Debbie EpsteinPart 4 Elite Institutions, Elite positions and Elite Jobs 12. Elite Universities, Elite Schooling and Reproduction in Britain Paul Wakeling and Mike Savage13. Paths to the Elite in France and in the United States Jules Naudet14. Contextually-Bound Authoritative Knowledge: A Comparative Study of British, French and Norwegian Administrative Elites’ Merit and Skills Marte Mangset15. Higher Education, Corporate Talent and the Stratification of Knowledge Work in the Global Labour Market Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Johnny SungConclusionElites, Education and Identity. An Emerging Research AgendaStephen Ball