Overview
- 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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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.
Roger Dale, University of Bristol
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
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“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)
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Book Title: Teachers as Tutors: Shadow Education Market Dynamics in Georgia
Authors: Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
Series Title: CERC Studies in Comparative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95915-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95914-6Published: 28 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07114-1Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95915-3Published: 10 August 2018
Series ISSN: 1573-6040
Series E-ISSN: 2543-022X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology