Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices Ser.: Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean : Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity by André E. Mazawi (2013, Trade Paperback)
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9462092354
ISBN-13
9789462092358
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166270738
Product Key Features
Author
ANDRÉ E. Mazawi
Publication Name
Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean : Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices Ser.
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
228 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
25
Reviews
" This book is extremely well written , describing and analysing a very critical topic that sheds light on the important component of the evolution for educational systems, in the case of the Mediterranean." --Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
General, Europe / General, Teaching Methods & Materials / General