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  title info:
    title: Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness
    sub title: Elite Nigerian Parents and the International Education Market
  name:
    name part: Ayling, Pere.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 143 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1 An introduction: Researching the contemporary Nigerian elites -- Part 1 -- 2 Bordieu's Theory of practice -- 3 Frantz Fanon: Whiteness, Colonialism and the 'Colonial habitus' -- 4 Elite schools as sites for elite class reproduction and identity formation -- Part 2 -- 5 Whiteness: The colour of 'quality' education in contemporary Nigeria -- 6 The Soft-selling of 'World-class' Education -- 7 The making of the contemporary Nigerian 'elite' Child -- 8 Consuming overseas schooling: An act of parental love? -- 9 Researching elite Nigerian parents: Lessons learned and new directions.
  note: by Pere Ayling.
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity in Education
  classification: LC189-214.53
  classification: 306.43
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    record creation date: 190219
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