Overview
- a] The volume’s focus on a region which has an increasingly important geo-political profile;
- b] The fact that it presents new data about countries that do not often feature in the international education literature; and
- c] The book advances both factual presentation and conceptualisation of a sub-field that is still in its infancy. Thus, it should be read widely beyond the Mediterranean as well as within it.
Part of the book series: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices (CIEDV)
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Private tutoring—supplementary, out-of-school instruction offered at a fee to individuals or groups—represents 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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean
Book Subtitle: Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity
Editors: Mark Bray, André E. Mazawi, Ronald G. Sultana
Series Title: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-237-2
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-237-2Published: 03 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2214-9880
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9899
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 221
Topics: Education, general
