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Private tutoring across the Mediterranean : power dynamics and implications for learning and equity / edited by Mark Bray, University of Hong Kong, China, André E. Mazawi, University of British Columbia, Canada and Ronald G. Sultana, University of Malta, Malta

Published
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 221 pages).
Additional Creators
Bray, Mark, 1952-, Mazawi, André Elias, and Sultana, Ronald G.
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English.
Contents
Introduction / Mark Bray, André E. Mazawi and Ronald G. Sultana -- Private Tutoring and Social Equity in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina / Boris Jokić, Andrea Soldo and Zrinka Ristić Dedić -- Charting Private Tutoring in Cyprus / Iasonas Lamprianou and Thekla Afantiti Lamprianou., Education 'Home Delivery' in Egypt / Sarah Hartmann -- Education as a Market in France / Anne-Claudine Oller and Dominique Glasman -- Shadow Education in Greece / Michael Kassotakis and Athanasios Verdis -- Private Tutoring in Italy / Giovanna Campani -- The Private Tuition Phenomenon in Malta / Michael A. Buhagiar and Deborah A. Chetcuti., and Private Tutoring in Portugal / António Neto-Mendes [and others] -- Constructions of Private Tutoring in Slovenian Online Chatrooms / Armand Faganel, Anita Trnavčevič -- Private Tutoring and Inequitable Opportunities in Turkey / Aysit Tansel -- The Demand for Private Tutoring in Turkey / Hülya Koşar Altinyelken -- Beyond Shadows / André E. Mazawi, Ronald G. Sultana and Mark Bray.
Summary
Private tutoringsupplementary, out-of-school instruction offered at a fee to individuals or groupsrepresents a substantial household expenditure, even in systems that claim to have free public education. It plays out across, alongside, and even within some school systems. Emerging as a shadow education, private tutoring now operates as a system and industry crossing national, regional, and social-class boundaries. Private tutoring is provided through different modes of delivery including the internet. Policy makers, parents, teachers, trade unions, corporations, community associations, and students are implicated in the private tutoring industry. The debates over private tutoring are therefore part of the larger struggles over the ends of education in just and equitable societies. The authors in this volume address diverse national settings of private tutoring across the Mediterranean, and examine its political, economic, social, and cultural underpinnings. They draw on a range of conceptual frameworks, and deploy a variety of research methods to problematize the multifaceted relationships between tutoring, learning, and equity. The volume captures a multiplicity of voices, and focuses on some of the central challenges facing education in pluralistic societies.
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ISBN
9789462092372 (electronic bk.)
9462092370 (electronic bk.)
9789462092358
9462092354
9789462092365
9462092362
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Springer eBooks
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