Editors:
- First collection of
- chapters on the theme of private supplementary tutoring
- Focuses on methodology,
- academic subjects, and primary and secondary education
- Presents lessons from diverse educational, national, and research cultures
- Addresses a growing and significant phenomenon, in a wide range of countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 32)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Employing Quantitative Instruments
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Discerning Qualities
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Expanding Perspectives with Mixed Approaches
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Back Matter
About this book
Private supplementary tutoring, widely known as shadow education because of the way that it mimics mainstream schooling, has greatly expanded worldwide. It consumes considerable family resources, provides employment for tutors, occupies the time of students, and has a backwash on regular schools. Although such tutoring has become a major industry and a daily activity for students, tutors and families, the research literature has been slow to catch up with the phenomenon. The topic is in some respects difficult to research, precisely because it is shadowy. Contours are indistinct, and the actors may hesitate to share their experiences and perspectives. Presenting methodological lessons from diverse cultures, the book contains chapters from both high-income and low-income settings in Asia, Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East. Separately and together, the chapters present valuable insights into the design and conduct of research.The book will assist both consumers and producers of research. Consumers will become better judges of the strengths, weaknesses and orientations of literature on the theme; and producers will gain insights for design of instruments, collection of data, and interpretation of findings.
The editors: Mark Bray is UNESCO Chair Professor in Comparative Education at the University of Hong Kong. Ora Kwo is an Associate Professor in the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Boris Jokić is a Scientific Associate in the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mark Bray
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Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Ora Kwo
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Centre for Educational Research and Deve, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Boris Jokić
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Private Supplementary Tutoring
Book Subtitle: Methodological Lessons from Diverse Cultures
Editors: Mark Bray, Ora Kwo, Boris Jokić
Series Title: CERC Studies in Comparative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30042-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30041-2Published: 04 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80712-6Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30042-9Published: 01 March 2016
Series ISSN: 1573-6040
Series E-ISSN: 2543-022X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 278
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education