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Re/producing the global middle class: International baccalaureate alumni at “world class” universities in Hong Kong

  • Re/producing the global middle class: International baccalaureate alumni at “world class” universities in Hong Kong
  • CESHK Spring Conference 2019: Sustainable Development and Comparative Education: Goals, Reification and Heresies (2019: The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
    • Hong Kong
    • 1997.7 onwards
    • Post-Secondary Education
  • This research investigated educational pathways into a Global Middle Class characterised by professional or managerial careers, cosmopolitan sensibilities, and global mobility. The focus was upper middle-class International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) alumni at universities in Hong Kong. 42 in-depth interviews were conducted with IBDP alumni at two “world-class” Hong Kong universities. Findings illuminated how students were well-positioned for careers associated with the Global Middle Class. Despite growing up in expatriate and local families across a diversity of countries, most IBDP alumni discussed self-perceptions of cosmopolitan sensibilities, a close-knit social clique based around a globalised identity, participation in globally-oriented extracurricular activities, and global economic futures. Nevertheless, there were paradoxes of cosmopolitan sensibilities as the IBDP alumni perceived a lack of belonging to the universities and a disconnection with the local society. Copyright © 2019 CESHK Spring Conference.
  • Paper presented at the CESHK Spring Conference 2019: Sustainable Development and Comparative Education: Goals, Reification and Heresies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
    • English
  • Conference Papers
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/2223616f
  • 2020-01-06

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