Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

FOREWORD by Jane Kenway

INTRODUCTION

I WORLD-CLASS PRACTICES

ONE A Constellational Approach to the Study of Elite Schooling

TWO Articulating the Sociology of Elite Education

and Global Ethnography

THREE Economy of Eliteness: Consuming Educational Advantage

II HISTORICAL FORCES

FOUR The Caledonian School’s Establishment:

Empire, Nation, School

FIVE The Caledonian School’s Ascendancy:

Authoritarianism, Populism, Post-Neoliberalism

III POLITICAL CULTURE

SIX "Drunk on Capitalism:" Teaching History to Rich Kids

SEVEN Moulding Plastic Liberalism:

Political Discussion during an Election Year

EIGHT Winners Helping Losers: The Comforts of Service Learning

CONCLUSION

AFTERWORD ON METHOD

REFERENCES

About the Author

Howard Prosser is a lecturer in Education at Monash University, Australia. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Western Australia and a PhD in Education from Monash University. He co-edited In the Realm of the Senses: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege (2015).