Distinction, exclusivity and whiteness : elite Nigerian parents and the international education market / Pere Ayling.
2019
LC191.8.N54 A95 2019
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Title
Distinction, exclusivity and whiteness : elite Nigerian parents and the international education market / Pere Ayling.
Author
Ayling, Pere, author.
ISBN
9789811357817 (electronic book)
9811357811 (electronic book)
9789811357824 (print)
981135782X
9811357803
9789811357800
9811357811 (electronic book)
9789811357824 (print)
981135782X
9811357803
9789811357800
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 143 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-13-5781-7
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LC191.8.N54 A95 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.43209669
Summary
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.
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Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness : Elite Nigerian Parents and the International Education Market.
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Table of Contents
Researching the contemporary Nigerian elites : an introduction
Bourdieu's theory of practice
Frantz Fanon : whiteness, colonialism and the colonial habitus
Elite schools as sites for elite class reproduction and identity formation
Whiteness : the symbol of quality education in contemporary Nigeria
The soft-selling of world-class education
The making of the contemporary Nigerian elite child
Consuming overseas schooling : an act of parental love?
Researching elite identity (re)prodcution in contemporary Nigeria : lessons learned and new directions
Index.
Bourdieu's theory of practice
Frantz Fanon : whiteness, colonialism and the colonial habitus
Elite schools as sites for elite class reproduction and identity formation
Whiteness : the symbol of quality education in contemporary Nigeria
The soft-selling of world-class education
The making of the contemporary Nigerian elite child
Consuming overseas schooling : an act of parental love?
Researching elite identity (re)prodcution in contemporary Nigeria : lessons learned and new directions
Index.