Shadow Education in the Middle East - 9781032329802

Taylor & Francis > East China Normal University

Shadow Education in the Middle EastPrivate Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications\nAuthor(s): Mark Bray, Anas Hajar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032329802, 978-1032329802\nSynopsis\nThis volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching implications for social structures and mainstream education. Around the world, increasing numbers of children receive private tutoring to supplement their schooling. In much of the academic literature this is called shadow education because the content of tutoring commonly mimics that of schooling: as the curriculum changes in the schools, so it changes in the shadow.\n\nWhile much research and policy attention has focused on private tutoring in East Asia and some other world regions, less attention has been given to the topic in the Middle East. Drawing on both Arabic-language and English-language liter.