Private tutoring across the Mediterranean : power dynamics and implications for learning and equity /

Private tutoring across the Mediterranean : power dynamics and implications for learning and equity /

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Imprint:	Rotterdam Sense Publishers 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Comparative and international education : a diversity of voices ; volume 25 Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; volume 25.
Subject:	Tutors and tutoring. Tutors and tutoring. Mediterranean Region.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9966361

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Other authors / contributors:	Bray, Mark, 1952-, editor of compilation. Mazawi, André Elias, editor of compilation. Sultana, Ronald G., editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9789462092372 (electronic bk.) 9462092370 (electronic bk.) 9789462092358 9789462092365
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Description based on print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Private tutoring across the Mediterranean 9462092354
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-94-6209-237-2

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9789462092372 9462092370 9789462092358 9789462092365