Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness
Elite Nigerian Parents and the International Education Market
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
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.
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.
Brings two of the most important scholars of the twentieth century – Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu – into dialogue in an innovative and dynamic way Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the formation and preservation of elite status in postcolonial Nigeria Reveals how Nigerian elite parent’ school choice decisions in the international education market is a function of their ‘colonial habitus’ Reveals how British private schools in Nigeria strategically position white teachers and deploy the ‘white rota’ in their attempts to construct and maintain a ‘world-class’ brand image Critically examines three inter-related micro-social processes employed by elite Nigerian parents in an attempt to transform their children into transnational elites
Autor*in
Pere Ayling
Themen in »Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness«
Bourdieu Fanon Whiteness in education Elite reproduction International schooling Elite Education Nigerian expatriate elite parents International Secondary Education Market Elite Identity in Nigeria overseas schooling