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Optimising Meritocratic Advantage with the International Baccalaureate Diploma in Australian Schools
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Direct linkDoherty, Catherine – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
This paper explores two of the tensions Tarc identifies in the history of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma: firstly, between its design for meritocratic competition and its internationalist vision and, secondly, between the IB as a global commodity and its localised interpretations. Using data from three case studies of Australian…
Descriptors: Educational History, Competition, Local Government, Foreign Countries
Doherty, Catherine; Mu, Li; Shield, Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2009
This paper reports on a study of students choosing the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma over state-based curricula in Australian schools. The IB Diploma was initially designed as a matriculation certificate to facilitate international mobility. While first envisaged as a lifestyle agenda for cultural elites, such mobility is now widespread…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Focus Groups, Labor Force Development, Foreign Countries
