Elitism for sale: Promoting the elite school online in the competitive educational marketplace

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Drew, Christopher. (2013). Elitism for sale: Promoting the elite school online in the competitive educational marketplace. Australian Journal of Education. 57(2), pp. 174 - 184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944113485838
AuthorsDrew, Christopher
Abstract

Australia’s neoliberal education agenda drives a competitive market climate where schools compete for potential clientele. In this climate, school impression management and selfpromotion has become an important factor in maintaining a financially viable school. Schools produce image management texts including school prospectuses, newspapers advertisements, and school websites. Examining fifteen elite school websites from New South Wales Australia, this paper argues that the websites construct elite ideological discourses in order to position themselves as desirable within the neoliberal education context. The placement of promotional images and hyperlinks in salient places on the websites reveals the importance of self-promotion and the production of images of elitism in the marketised education climate. The school websites examined are found to have multiple animated and interactive functions that are used in the promotion of the schools as elite.

Keywordseducational marketing; websites; school choice; semiotics; competition; private schools
Year2013
JournalAustralian Journal of Education
Journal citation57 (2), pp. 174 - 184
PublisherSage Publications Ltd.
ISSN0004-9441
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944113485838
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84880102379
Page range174 - 184
Research GroupSchool of Education
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Place of publicationUnited Kingdom
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