This 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.
While 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 literature, this study commences with the global
picture before comparing patterns within and among 12 Arabic-speaking
countries of the Middle East. It presents the educational and cultural
commonalities amongst these countries, examines the drivers of demand
and supply of shadow education, and considers the dynamics of tutoring
and how it impacts on education in schools.
In addition to its pertinence within the Middle East itself, the book
will be of considerable interest to academics and education policy
makers broadly concerned with changing roles of the state and private
sectors in education.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
