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Direct linkChandir, Harsha – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
'Global Competence' (GC) is currently being visualized by international and national bodies as an education imperative. Not only has GC become ubiquitous as a policy idea, it is, in 2018, being assessed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA has quantified…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Prosser, Howard – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Elite schools, both private and public, consistently top metrics of success around the world. This article mobilises an antistrophon -- turning an argument against itself -- to expose elite schools' rhetorical defences. As part of this device, four provocations are offered -- knowledge, excellence, merit, values -- that coincide with elite…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics, Social Bias, Ideology
Walkerdine, Valerie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Colleges, Selective Admission, Social Class
