ABSTRACT

Under neoliberalism, parents as consumers are expected to provide their children with opportunities to get ahead. Governments defend elite schools on the grounds that ‘diversity’ and ‘choice’ are in the public interest but not everybody has an equal opportunity to choose. School websites act to promote specific images of schools with opportunities and advantages they claim to offer. A marketing video of the International Boys’ School Coalition reveals the specific masculinities and advantages touted as on offer in boys’ education. Globalised discourses of inclusion and merit are interrogated for hidden class and race inequities and advantage, as well as excluding girls and limiting identities of some boys. Schools that overwhelmingly produce the leaders of society are shown to reproduce unfair gender, class and race discourses limiting the possibilities for anyone excluded.

摘要

在新自由主义下，父母作为消费者被期望为他们的孩子提供出人头地的机会。政府为精英学校辩护，理由是“多样性”和“选择”符合公共利益，但并非每个人都有平等的选择机会。学校网站的作用是宣传学校的特定形象，这些学校声称提供机会和优势。国际男校联盟的营销视频揭示了男孩教育中被吹捧的特定男子气概和优势。包容和优点的全球化话语被质疑隐藏的阶级和种族不平等和优势，以及排斥女孩和限制一些男孩的身份。以压倒性优势培养社会领袖的学校被证明会复制不公平的性别，