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Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean

Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity

Editors:

  1. Mark Bray

    1. University of Hong Kong, China

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  2. André E. Mazawi

    1. University of British Columbia, Canada

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  3. Ronald G. Sultana

    1. University of Malta, Malta

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  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark Bray, André E. Mazawi, Ronald G. Sultana
    Pages 1-10

  3. Private Tutoring and Social Equity in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina

    • Boris Jokić, Andrea Soldo, Zrinka Ristić Dedić
    Pages 11-27

  4. Charting Private Tutoring in Cyprus

    • Iasonas Lamprianou, Thekla Afantiti Lamprianou
    Pages 29-56

  5. Education ‘Home Delivery’ in Egypt

    • Sarah Hartmann
    Pages 57-75

  6. Education as a Market in France

    • Anne-Claudine Oller, Dominique Glasman
    Pages 77-91

  7. Shadow Education in Greece

    • Michael Kassotakis, Athanasios Verdis
    Pages 93-113

  8. Private Tutoring in Italy

    • Giovanna Campani
    Pages 115-128

  9. The Private Tuition Phenomenon in Malta

    • Michael A. Buhagiar, Deborah A. Chetcuti
    Pages 129-149

  10. Private Tutoring in Portugal

    • António Neto-Mendes, Jorge Adelino Costa, Alexandre Ventura, Sara Azevedo, Andreia Gouveia
    Pages 151-165

  11. Constructions of Private Tutoring in Slovenian Online Chatrooms

    • Armand Faganel, Anita Trnavčevič
    Pages 167-176

  13. The Demand for Private Tutoring in Turkey

    • Hülya Koşar Altinyelken
    Pages 187-204

  14. Beyond Shadows

    • André E. Mazawi, Ronald G. Sultana, Mark Bray
    Pages 205-216

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 217-221
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About this book

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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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hong Kong, China

    Mark Bray

  • University of British Columbia, Canada

    André E. Mazawi

  • University of Malta, Malta

    Ronald G. Sultana

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