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A Critical Reconceptualization of the International Baccalaureate as a Potential Force for Democratisation in Global-Heritage Schools
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Mathew Barnard – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper aims to make a conceptual contribution to the role of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in regard to global education within state global heritage (multicultural) schools -- using England as a representative example -- in an age characterised by epistemological, historical and cultural securitisation. This paper…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Democratic Values, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Fields, Habitus and the International Baccalaureate's Interpretation of International Mindedness
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Whitmarsh, David – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
International Mindedness (IM) is recognised as being a key component of an international education (Hill, 2015). However, IM is also acknowledged as an 'under-reported and under-researched aspect of elite [international] education' (Bunnell et al, 2020). This has led to the concept being described as 'enigmatic and under-defined' by researchers…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, International Schools, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling. Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education. Volume 9
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Erik M. Hines, Editor; Edward C. Fletcher Jr., Editor – Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, 2023
Black males face several active and inactive discriminations across society. In education, they encounter stiffer disciplinary actions such as out of school suspension and expulsion than their White peers, are overrepresented in special education programs as well as over diagnosed; are underrepresented in gifted in talented programs; advanced…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Secondary School Students, College Students
The Promised Capitals of International High School Programmes and the Global Field of Higher Education: The Case of Shenzhen, China
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Wright, Ewan; Mulvey, Benjamin – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
The term 'international school' encompasses a broad array of institutions offering a range of different programmes. However, the differences between these programmes have scarcely been explored in the existing literature. This article focuses on three popular international high school programmes (Advanced Levels, Advanced Placement, and…
Descriptors: International Schools, High School Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Social Class and the Construction of International Mindedness: A Comparative Study of International Baccalaureate Schools in Ecuador
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Bittencourt, Tiago – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to examine how students inhabiting distinctive social spaces and experiencing considerably different material realities define, value and problematize the concept of international mindedness. Drawing on a larger multi-sited ethnographic study of two International Baccalaureate schools in Ecuador, the study found that…
Descriptors: Social Class, International Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries
Critical Reflections on Modern Elite Formation and Social Differentiation in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in England
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Outhwaite, Deborah; Ferri, Giuliana – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper investigates the changes in educational policy in England regarding the implementing of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (henceforth IBDP) into post-16 (sixth form) education. The aim is to illustrate the unique trajectory of the IBDP in England: from its adoption in schools and colleges across the country, to its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Policy, Secondary Education
Beyond the Global City: A Comparative Analysis of Cosmopolitanism in Middle-Class Educational Strategies in Australia and Brazil
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Windle, Joel; Maire, Quentin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The global middle class (GMC) is a theoretical construct that seeks to globalise a set of attributes identified in studies of school choice in the global north, and to a lesser extent in developing nations in Asia. As theorised by Ball a mobile middle class with cosmopolitan sensibilities drives international education options in global cities.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries