ABSTRACT

The main role of an elite school is to produce future leaders and this paper examines how four elite schools in different parts of the Global South are engaging in this process. Despite the critiques of global citizenship education (GCE) being a vestige of the colonial project, we analyse closely how it is being actively and productively appropriated by the four schools. Our comparative analysis highlights two different types of leaders being created. Two schools are seeking to produce regional sociopolitical transformational leaders, while the other two institutions are more focused on individualised, self-interested future subjects. We show how a range of GCE orientations is drawn on across the four schools that have different geo-political and spatial reaches and are ultimately productive in (re-)producing elite classes. Furthermore, these GCE orientations also have the potential to disrupt the unequal relations currently found between the North and the South.

摘要

精英学校的主要作用是培养未来的领导者，本文研究了全球南方不同地区的四所精英学校如何参与这一过程。尽管有人批评全球公民教育 (GCE) 是殖民项目的遗迹，但我们仔细分析了四所学校如何积极有效地利用它。我们的比较分析强调了正在培养的两种不同类型的领导者。两所学校正在寻求培养区域社会政治变革领袖，而另外两所机构则更侧重于个性化、自利的未来学科。我们展示了如何在具有不同地缘政治和空间范围的四所学校中利用一系列 GCE 方向，并最终在（再）产生精英班级方面发挥作用。此外，