
Shadow Education : Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia.
Title:
Shadow Education : Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia.
Author:
Bray, Mark.
ISBN:
9789290926597
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (114 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Lists of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Mapping the Landscape -- Enrollment Rates -- Intensity and Demographic Variations -- Subjects and Modes -- Costs -- Demand and Supply -- Drivers of Demand -- Diversity of Supply -- Impact of Shadow Education -- Academic Achievement -- Broader Skills and Values -- Efficiencies and Inefficiencies -- Inequalities and Social Cohesion -- Implications for Policy Makers -- Securing Data and Monitoring Trends -- Reforming Assessment and Selection Systems -- Changing the Curriculum -- Harnessing Technology -- Devising and Implementing Regulations -- Finding Partners -- Learning from the Shadow -- Conclusions -- Driving Forces -- Diversity in Patterns -- Inequalities and Inefficiencies -- The Way Ahead -- Appendix: Regulations on Private Tutoring -- References -- Notes on the Authors -- CERC Monograph Series in Comparative and International Education and Development -- Figures -- 1. Average Monthly Household Expenditures on Shadow Education, Republic of Korea, 1997-2010 -- 2. Different Forms of Shadow Education in the Republic of Korea, 2010 -- 3. Overlap of Commercial and Educational Law in Regulation of Private Tutoring -- Tables -- 1. Shadow Education Participation by Region and Level of Education, Republic of Korea, 2008 -- 2. Subjects in which Grade 10 Students Received Private Tutoring, Sri Lanka, 2009 -- 3. Subjects in which Senior Secondary Students Received Private Lessons, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan, 2005/06 -- 4. Proportions of Children Aged 3-16 Receiving Private Tutoring by Income Quintile, Rural India (2007/08) and Rural Pakistan (2010) -- 5. Household Expenditures on Tutoring by Ethnic Group, Malaysia, 2004/05.
6. Shadow Education Participation and Expenditure by Income Group and Level of Education, Republic of Korea, 2008 -- 7. Household Costs for Secondary Schooling, Bangladesh, 2005 -- 8. Yearly Costs per Person for Private Tutoring, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan -- 9. Reasons for Receiving Private Tutoring, Sri Lanka, 2009 -- 10. Factors that Contributed to "Heating up" of Juku Attendance, Japan (Parents' Response Rates) -- 11. Teachers' Views of the Influence of Cram Schools on Children's Mathematics Learning, Taipei,China -- 12. Proportions of Households with Positive Expenditures on Tutoring, Sri Lanka -- 13. Proportions of Students Receiving Private Tutoring, Viet Nam, 1997/98 -- Boxes -- 1. Cross-National Indicators of Private Tutoring -- 2. A Longstanding Concern -- 3. Alarm about the Expansion of Private Tutoring in India -- 4. Dazzling Work Ethic, Gritty Faith, and Financial Realities in Viet Nam -- 5. Culture and the Tiger Mothers -- 6. Finding the Right Tutor in Singapore -- 7. More Tutoring, Less Learning -- 8. Limiting the Duration of Shadow Education in the Republic of Korea -- 9. Shadow Education as a Positional Good.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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