Elite Schools in International Education Markets in East Asia: Emerging Patterns, Successes and Challenges

Moosung Lee; Ewan Wright

doi:10.4135/9781473943506.n39

Elite Schools in International Education Markets in East Asia: Emerging Patterns, Successes and Challenges

Moosung Lee
, Ewan Wright

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There has been growing academic interest in elite schools in recent years with a focus on the various educational benefits they offer students relative to their non-elite school counterparts (see Cookson and Persell, 2009; Gaztambide-Fernández, 2009; Howard, 2008; Kenway and Fahey, 2014; Khan, 2013; Koh, 2014; McCarthy et al., 2014; Weis, 2014; Wright and Lee, 2014a, 2014b). In particular, McCarthy and Kenway (2014: 169) describe studying at an elite school as like travelling with a first class airline ticket where once ‘you are on board, you have just about the best of everything’. Furthermore, the function of elite schools has been viewed as providing a socialization process for entry to what Mills (1956) called ‘the power elite’ in society.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Sage Handbook of Research in International Education
Editors	Mary Hayden, Jack Levy, Jeff Thompson
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
Chapter	39
Pages	583-597
Number of pages	15
Edition	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781473943490
ISBN (Print)	9781446298442
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473943506.n39
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Lee, M., & Wright, E. (2015). Elite Schools in International Education Markets in East Asia: Emerging Patterns, Successes and Challenges. In M. Hayden, J. Levy, & J. Thompson (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Research in International Education (2 ed., pp. 583-597). (The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473943506.n39

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Lee, M & Wright, E 2015, Elite Schools in International Education Markets in East Asia: Emerging Patterns, Successes and Challenges. in M Hayden, J Levy & J Thompson (eds), The Sage Handbook of Research in International Education. 2 edn, The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 583-597. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473943506.n39

Elite Schools in International Education Markets in East Asia: Emerging Patterns, Successes and Challenges. / Lee, Moosung; Wright, Ewan.
The Sage Handbook of Research in International Education. ed. / Mary Hayden; Jack Levy; Jeff Thompson. 2. ed. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015. p. 583-597 (The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education).

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