Overview
- Intervenes in the theorization of education, class and globalization through the deployment of fresh critical lenses
- Represents a major methodological innovation exploring the social aesthetics of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools
- Challenges conventional studies of elite schools that merely focus on their social purposes by examining the ways in which class permeates the senses
- Mobilizes a series of visual essays that complement the written accounts of the aesthetics of privilege
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Johannah Fahey is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests are located in the areas of education and global studies, and are informed by her expertise in cultural studies. She has a national and international reputation in the areas of intersectionality (gender, race and class), and cultural globalization and mobilities. She is the co-editor of Globalizing the Research Imagination (Routledge 2009); and co-author/author of Haunting the Knowledge Economy (Routledge 2006) and David Noonan: Before and Now (Thames & Hudson 2004).
Howard Prosser researches and teaches at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. He has taught history in Australian secondary schools and universities. His research interests include Social Theory, History of Ideas, and Ethnography. Most recently he has been working on a study of political culture at an elite school in Argentina.
Matthew Shaw is a PhD candidate in the Education Faculty at Monash University, Australia. His interests lie in history including the history of sport as well as the place of sport in schools and society. His dissertation looks at the role sport has in a divided society and the way it is used to reinforce or break down boundaries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: In the Realm of the Senses
Book Subtitle: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege
Editors: Johannah Fahey, Howard Prosser, Matthew Shaw
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-350-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-349-1Published: 20 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1345-4Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-350-7Published: 08 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 211
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV