Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-centred Sex and Relationships Education: Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures (Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education)

Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional development (CPD), to provide a programme based on the needs and discomfort of both students and teachers. Using a case study approach focusing on elite schools, the book considers the socio-political nature of sex education in England from a Bourdieuan perspective, while also incorporating aspects of Foucauldian normative power into political analysis to give broader international appeal.The book demonstrates how Bourdieu and his toolkit can be used to consider the sociological structures that allow for the construction, and thus deconstruction, of social norms within elite education.Chapters provide insights gathered from an understanding of the social fabric of elite schooling and the traditio