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Title: Beyond shadows : equity, diversity, and private tutoring
Other Titles: Private tutoring across the Mediterranean : power dynamics and implications for learning and equity
Authors: Mazawi, Andre Elias
Sultana, Ronald G.
Bray, Mark
Keywords: Tutors and tutoring -- Mediterranean Region
Education -- Mediterranean Region
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Citation: Bray, M., Mazawi, A. E., & Sultana, R. G. (2013). Beyond shadows : equity, diversity, and private tutoring. In M. Bray, A. E. Mazawi & R. G. Sultana (Eds.), Private tutoring across the Mediterranean : power dynamics and implications for learning and equity (pp. 205-221). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Abstract: Private tutoring – a fee-based supplementary out-of-school individual or group instruction – is a pervasive phenomenon. As shown by various authors (e.g. Bray, 2009; Bray & Lykins, 2012; Dawson, 2010; Silova, 2010), and the chapters in this collection, private tutoring plays out across, alongside, and in some instances even as part of formal school systems, whether formally or informally. Bray (2010) observes that, ‘tutoring has moved beyond being just a shadow of the regular system to become a system in its own right which offers additional learning opportunities’ (p. 10). Moreover, it transcends national and social class boundaries. The expansion of web-based technologies and offshoring practices have further weakened (though not entirely eliminated) ‘geographical constraints both for the service providers and to their clients’ (Ventura & Jang, 2010, p. 66). Private tutoring is found in states upholding different political ideologies. Continually morphing, it assumes multifaceted forms, occupies diverse institutional spaces, and is provided through different modes of delivery.
Description: Includes a chapter with notes on the contributors.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/34661
ISBN: 9789462092365
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