The Americanization of Kurt Hahn’s Values: Commentary on “Outward Bound and Civic Minded”

Seaman, Jayson

doi:10.18666/jorel-2020-v12-i4-10411

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“…Insiders find opportunities to develop social closure against those judged to be outside the elite entrance (Buisson-Fenet, 2013;Wilby, 2013). The Outward Bound movement was fashioned on the ideas of aristocratic German educator Kurt Hahn, who held a 'traditionalistic' view based in muscular Christianity (Seaman, 2020). It is seen as a 'cultural island' embedded within capitalist relations, discourses of youth identity formation and personal growth humanistic ideology which legitimated the neglect of social, political and economic dimensions to individual problems (Freeman, 2011;Seaman, 2016).…”

Section: Simulating Traditionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The prestige economy of elite education: a Baudrillardian analysis of an aspirational English school

Holligan

Shah

2023

Lond. Rev. Educ.

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Academic entrepreneurial behaviours are increasingly a research field paralleling processes of capitalist commodification. We mobilise Baudrillard’s concepts to probe a school’s strategic communication methods symbolising class neoliberalism, which aspirational parents may experience as a desired habitus of ‘distinction’. We suggest their knowledge of class and education, once imported into the interpretation of this school’s web presence, will coalesce with its simulacra of elite education. Our account encourages comparisons with selective school websites and utilises the qualitative data on the public site of this school, a methodological approach that has been fruitfully utilised by scholars uncovering the ideological representations created by providers who market UK higher education. The intervention into the marketplace of the selective fee-paying English education of Independent Grammar School: Durham (IGSD) through such a penumbra of symbolic meaning forms part of its pursuit of a competitive edge. International studies of schools chasing prestige and consumer desire confirm that the policies and practices described have become widespread, as shown in the oeuvre of Stephen Ball, whose writings inform the approach of this article. The marketing of the ‘brand’ identified through our theoretically driven analysis may encourage consumers to opt out of the state sector. Neoliberal-class markers of prestige contribute to the erosion of welfare-oriented school ideals in England, and in other nations.

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Section: Simulating Traditionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%