Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness Elite Nigerian Parents and the International Education Market /

• Main Author: Ayling, Pere (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Ethnicity in Education.

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 importan...

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.