预告│第132期华夏课程论坛：影子教育在中欧 2018-05-19
Vít ??astny is a post-doc researcher
at the Institute for Research and Development of Education, Faculty of
Education, Charles University, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in the field of
Education studies. His research interests include shadow education and
comparative education.
He is the principal investigator of
the research project called The link between mainstream and shadow education:
the case of Czech lower-secondary schools supported by the Grant Agency of the
Czech Republic. Previously, he has worked as a teacher in French and Czech
secondary school, he also collaborates with Czech School Inspectorate in the
field of large scale assessments and external school evaluation.
The scale of private supplementary
tutoring, known in the scholarly literature as shadow education, has grown
tremendously in recent decades to an extent that it has become a global
phenomenon. In central and eastern Europe, the shadow education became apparent
after the fall of Iron curtain during the process of transition and
transformation in 1990s and has grown significantly in the countries of the
former eastern bloc since then.
The author will present a case study
of the shadow education phenomenon in the Czech Republic to demonstrate wider
patterns and distinctive traits of the shadow education in the region of central
Europe. Based on the available empirical evidence and results of his own
research among upper secondary students, the author presents findings about the
nature, scale, curricular content and forms of private supplementary tutoring at
various levels of education system, and discusses the drivers of the demand and
implications for pupils, parents, teachers, policymakers and other
stakeholders.
