‘Cosmopolitan start-up’ capital: mobility and school choices of global middle class parents

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  • Jason Beech
  • Aaron Koh
  • Maxwell, Claire
  • Miri Yemini
  • Khen Tucker
  • Ignacio Barrenechea

In this paper the authors study 19 Global Middle Class (GMC) families currently residing in four global cities: Hong Kong; London; Buenos Aires; and Tel Aviv. Through qualitative in-depth interviews, they sought to gather insights about GMC parenting strategies, specifically drawing attention to the decision-making processes of school choice. To facilitate their analysis, they draw on Bourdieu’s theory on types of capital and Ben-Porath’s notion of bounded rationality. From the inductive analysis of their interview data with mobile GMC parents, they identified a subtype of cultural capital they called ‘cosmopolitan start-up capital’. The overall argument in the paper is that the accumulation of cosmopolitan start-up capital is a specific strategy guiding the GMC families’ school choice practices, set within a frame of mobilities. Given the growing number of mobile families who continuously enter and exit local education systems, focusing on this group is pertinent for policy makers and practitioners around the world.

Original languageEnglish
JournalCambridge Journal of Education
Volume51
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)527-541
ISSN0305-764X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jan 2021

    Research areas

  • Bourdieu, cosmopolitan start-up capital, global middle class (GMC), mobility, School choice

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