Overview
- Focuses on research on what is distinctive about elite schools in the South Africa context
- Examines scholarship recipients navigating elite school spaces in the context of post-apartheid South Africa
- Foregrounds the scholarship participants' voices about navigational practices into the elite school context
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE, volume 16)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Elite Schools in South Africa
- Public and Private Schooling in South Africa
- elite and private secondary Schools
- Scholarship Students
- Bursary Students
- The Gift of a Scholarship
- South African Schooling
- Post-apartheid Education
- Bourdieu and education
- Cultural Capital
- changing Habitus
- Bourdieu's Field
- Symbolic Violence
About this book
The book analyses and discusses the reflective experiences of students who were awarded a scholarship to attend an elite secondary school. It reveals that accepting the gift of a scholarship is far more complex, multi-layered, and at times harsh and even painful for the individual recipients than is possibly realized by those involved in thispractice. This book contributes to academic educational debates within the sociology of education, elite schools and schooling in the post-apartheid South African context.
Reviews
“Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this book provides a most engaging account of students from disadvantaged backgrounds who received a scholarship to attend an elite South African secondary school – of how they think about and negotiate their disadvantage in the contradictory landscape of post-apartheid South African education. It shows how the ‘two-tiered’ system persists in South Africa, and how social class has become a more significant factor in determining social privilege and access to quality education.” (Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Scholarship Students in Elite South African Schools is a timely and well researched volume that foregrounds the trajectories and perspectives of disadvantaged students who are scholarship awardees to elite schools in the ever-evolving post-apatheid context.The writing here is consistently insightful and refreshing. I highly recommend this volume to readers interested in understanding matters of the articulation of privilege and class in the post-apartheid South African educational context.” (Cameron McCarthy, University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scholarship Students in Elite South African Schools
Book Subtitle: The Gift of a Scholarship
Authors: Jennifer Wallace, Jennifer Feldman
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7536-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7535-6Published: 17 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7538-7Published: 18 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7536-3Published: 16 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 139
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Education, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership