Dr Joan Forbes, Reader in Education at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor Bob Lingard, University of Queensland, Australia, have a chapter in a new edited book on international perspectives on elite and private education.
The title of the new edited collection is: Privilege, agency and affect: Understanding the production and effects of action (Palgrave MacMillan 2013); and the title of Forbes and Lingard’s chapter is: Elite School Capitals and Girls’ Schooling: Understanding the (Re)production of privilege through a Habitus of ‘Assuredness’. The book was edited by Dr Claire Maxwell, Institute of Education, University of London, UK and Professor Peter Aggleton, the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Joan Forbes and Bob Lingard’s chapter is the most recent in a series of outputs from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) supported Applied Educational Research Scheme, Schools and Social Capital Network, Scottish Independent Schools Project (SISP). Some funding for the project also came for the Godfrey Thomson Trust, University of Edinburgh. The SISP studies are designed to investigate educational, societal and cultural in/exclusions and seek to develop and apply innovative research methodologies.