Global Middle Class
Aims:
The research project examines the educational strategies and identity formation of the global middle class, with a specific focus on Israeli families. Through a series of studies, the project explores how these families navigate mobility, cosmopolitanism, and national belonging. It investigates the decoupling or close coupling to their home country, the influence of global and local mobility on parental education strategies, and the varying school choices available to these globally mobile families. The research also delves into the dynamics of policy borrowing within state schooling, the role of travel in cultivating global citizenship, and the particular strategies employed by religious Jewish families. By examining the practices and experiences of these middle-class families, the project aims to contribute to the understanding of global middle-class mobility, educational choices, and the interplay between national identity and global belonging.
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Outcomes:
Yemini, M., & Maxwell, C. (2018). De-coupling or remaining closely coupled to ‘home’: Educational strategies around identity-making and advantage of Israeli global middle-class families in London. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(7), 1030-1044.
Maxwell, C., & Yemini, M. (2019). Modalities of cosmopolitanism and mobility: Parental education strategies of global, immigrant and local middle-class Israelis. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(5), 616-632.
Maxwell, C., Yemini, M., Koh, A., & Agbaria, A. (2019). The plurality of the Global Middle Class (es) and their school choices–moving the ‘field’forward empirically and theoretically. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(5), 609-615.
Yemini, M., Maxwell, C., & Mizrachi, M. A. (2019). How does mobility shape parental strategies–a case of the Israeli global middle class and their ‘immobile’peers in Tel Aviv. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(3), 324-338.
Yemini, M., Maxwell, C., Koh, A., Tucker, K., Barrenechea, I., & Beech, J. (2020). Mobile nationalism: Parenting and articulations of belonging among globally mobile professionals. Sociology, 54(6), 1212-1229.
Beech, J., Koh, A., Maxwell, C., Yemini, M., Tucker, K., & Barrenechea, I. (2021). ‘Cosmopolitan start-up’capital: mobility and school choices of global middle class parents. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(4), 527-541.
Yemini, M., & Maxwell, C. (2020). The purpose of travel in the cultivation practices of differently positioned parental groups in Israel. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(1), 18-31.
Yemini, M., & Maxwell, C. (2021). Mobilities of policy and mobile parents–creating a new dynamic in policy borrowing within state schooling. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19(1), 70-80.
Yemini, M., & Maxwell, C. (2022). Alternative modes of family travel: middle-class parental ‘exit’strategies as a different orientation towards global citizenship education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(3), 337-348.
Mizrachi, M., Maxwell, C., & Yemini, M. (2022). Buffered mobility: parenting strategies of religious Jewish global middle class families. Education Inquiry, 13(2), 205-225.
Hagage Baikovich, H., & Yemini, M. (2024). Parental engagement in international schools in Cyprus: a Bourdieusian analysis. Educational Review, 76(3), 526-543.
Maxwell, C., Yemini, M., & Gutman, M. (2024). National cultural capital as out of reach for transnationally mobile Israeli professional families–making a ‘return home’fraught. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(10), 2667-2687.
