World Yearbook of Education 2015

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish, or redefine their positions.

The volume is organized around three main issues:

• Analysing the way in which parents, students, and graduates in positions of social advantage use their assets and capitals in relation to educational strategies, and how these differ for old and new, cultural and economic elites.
• Studying how elite institutions have adapted their strategies to account for changes in the social structure, policy, and their institutional environment. It explores the impact of these strategies on educational systems at the national and global levels.
• Mapping the new global dynamics in elite education and how new forms of 'international education' and 'transnational cultural capital', as well as new global educational elite pathways, shape elite students’ identities, status, and trajectories.

Utilising a social and an institutional approach, as well as a focus on practices and policies, the volume draws on research conducted on secondary schools and higher education. Additionally, the global contributions within the book allow for the comparison and contrast of situations in different countries. This results in a comprehensive picture of common processes and national differences concerning advantage and excellence, and a thorough examination of the impact of globalization on the strategies, identities, and trajectories of elite groups and individuals, alongside more general cultural and economic processes.