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Teachers as Tutors: Shadow Education Market Dynamics in Georgia

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Authors:
  1. Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

    1. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  • Explores teachers’ identities, and the issues and dilemmas faced in becoming private tutors
  • Offers a fresh perspective to understand teachers as tutors by penetrating into their conflicting values
  • Based on the dissertation which won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award

Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 34)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 3-17

  3. Society and Education in Georgia

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 18-64

  4. Theoretical Framework

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 65-79

  5. Research Design, Methods and Methodology

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 80-112

  6. Teachers as Tutors

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 113-143

  7. Free Market of Education

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 144-163

  8. Economic Sociology of the Shadow Education Market

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 164-202

  9. Conclusions

    • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
    Pages 203-230

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-260
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About this book

The so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring has become a global phenomenon but has different features in different settings. This book explores the ways in which teacher-tutors’ beliefs, social norms, ideals about professionalism, and community values shape their economic decisions in the informal shadow education marketplace. Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia. The book questions some of the basic assumptions that the predominant neoliberal discourse promotes worldwide.

The book is based on Kobakhidze’s PhD dissertation, which won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award.

“[A] theoretically innovative and substantively enlightening account of shadow schooling in Georgia… A landmark achievement.”
Roger Dale, University of Bristol

“… an important and timely topic … addressed with exceptional thoroughness. It constitutes a solid piece of academic work and clearly makes a significant contribution to the field of shadow education.”Heidi Biseth, University College of Southeast Norway, Chair of Gail P. Kelly Award Committee in 2017

“…through robust critical analysis, Kobakhidze invites a humanistic re-visioning of economy and society.“
Ora Kwo, The University of Hong Kong

Reviews

“The author’s contribution to educational research is not only to inform policymakers and researchers concerned with teaching practices, but also to inform those concerned with student learning. … This book could become a classic in the field of educational research.” (Larry E. Suter, International Review of Education, Vol. 65, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

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