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Out of the shadows : supplementary education : the global intensification of supplementary education / edited by Janice Aurini, Scott Davies, Julian Dierkes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International perspectives on education and society ; v. 22.
- International perspectives on education and society, 1479-3679 ; v. 22.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compensatory education.
- Academic achievement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Supplementary education consists of private instruction that complements and sometimes 'shadows' formal school content. Providers range from informal and part-time tutors to highly institutionalized, multi-national corporate franchises. This phenomenon is growing worldwide and has many potential impacts on formal education systems.This volume is the first multi-national examination of this topic and includes 'big picture' analyses to comparatively explain the intensity, authority and policy contexts of supplementary education. Quantitative and qualitative case studies of countries with high
- Contents:
- Out of the shadows? An introduction to worldwide supplementary education / Janice Aurini, Scott Davies, Julian Dierkes
- The insecurity industry : supplementary education in Japan / Julian Dierkes
- Supplementary education in Turkey : recent developments and future prospects / Aysit Tansel
- Researching supplementary education : plans, realities, and lessons from fieldwork in China / Wei Zhang, Mark Bray
- Private tutoring in Vietnam : a review of current issues and its major correlates / Hai-Anh Dang
- Supplementary education in Brazil : diversity and paradoxes / Alexandre Ventura, Candido Gomes
- Supplementary education in a changing organizational field : the Canadian case / Janice Aurini, Scott Davies
- But did it help you get to university? A qualitative study of supplementary education in western Australia / Martin Forsey
- Supplementary education in the United States : policy context, characteristics, and challenges / Izumi Mori
- Supplementary education in Germany : history and present developments / Thomas Koinzer
- Making markets : policy construction of supplementary education in the United States and Korea / Christopher Lubienski, Jin Lee
- Family capital : a determinant of supplementary education in 17 nations / Darby E. Southgate.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record
- ISBN:
- 1-78190-817-6
- OCLC:
- 867818732
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