Shadow Education: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia

March 1, 2013

Mark Bray & Chad Lykins (2012): Shadow Education: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia has just been published by the Asian Development Bank.

In all parts of Asia, households devote considerable expenditures to private supplementary tutoring. This tutoring may contribute to students’ achievement, but it also maintains and exacerbates social inequalities, diverts resources from other uses, and can contribute to inefficiencies in education systems. Such tutoring is widely called shadow education, because it mimics school systems. As the curriculum in the school system changes, so does the shadow. This study documents the scale and nature of shadow education in different parts of the region. For many decades, shadow education has been a major phenomenon in East Asia. Now it has spread throughout the region, and it has far-reaching economic and social implications.

Seminar

The relation between shadow education and public education system in South Korea

January 1, 2013

12:45 – 2:00pm
26 March 2013 (Tuesday)
Runme Shaw Building 203, HKU Main Campus

Speaker: Hyunjin Kin

Download the PowerPoint used for this seminar here.

The main purpose of the presentation is to investigate the relation between shadow education and public education system changes in South Korea. Shadow education is the most concerning educational issue in Korea. Korean government has struggled to invent several types of policy responses to deal with shadow education since 1969. The effort of government to overcome the shadow education resulted in making a new public education system. Ironically, the new public education system became a cause of new types of shadow education. The new types of shadow education drive the government to invent another new policy response. This phenomenon has been repeated so far and will be. Historical review and new insight on the relation between shadow education and public education system will be delivered.

Hyunjin Kin is an associate professor in the department of education at the Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea since 2005. He obtained his PhD study in Educational Administration and Policy Study at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he received B.A. and M.Ed in the Seoul National University.

News & Upcoming Events

November 26, 2012

Knowledge Exchange with the Shadow Education Sector in Korea and China

Mark Bray, Ora Kwo, Abbas Arani, Li Wenjian and Zhang Wei were invited to the First International Conference on Hakwon Education held on 11 April, 2015. Click here to watch the news report on the event in MBN.

Mark Bray and Ora Kwo gave a keynote speech on regulating private tutoring for public good in the opening of the conference. It was also an occasion to launch the Korean version of their book: CERC Monograph Series 10, “Regulating Private Tutoring for Public Good: Policy Options for Supplementary Education in Asia“.

Immediately after this conference, Mark Bray and Ora Kwo launched the Chinese translation of the book, entitled 以公众利益规范私人补习：亚洲补习教育之政策选择 on 15 April 2015 at the CETU 10^th anniversary conference in Zhengzhou, China. The CETU is a co-publisher of this version, together with the UNESCO office in Beijing.

cetu merge The launch was held as a keynote address in the opening ceremony of the conference, attended by over 2,000 people. The book is now CETU3 available for free download here, from CETU and from UNESCO-Beijing.

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The Portuguese version of Confronting the Shadow Education System: What Government Policies for What Private Tutoring? by Mark Bray has been published. Click here for more information about this book.

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Colloque international : L’éducation en Asie en 2014 : Quels enjeux mondiaux? (Speech by Prof. Mark Bray)

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Professor Julian Dierkes, Associate Professor and Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research at UBC’s Institute for Asian Research, was interviewed regarding his recently co-edited volume, Out of the Shadows: The Global Intensification Of Supplementary Education, which was published in December 2013. To watch the video, please click the following link: The Global Intensification of Supplemental Education (Interview with Dr. Julian Dierkes)

Shadow Education Special Interest Group Scholars

November 26, 2012

	BRAY, Mark UNESCO Chair Professor of Comparative Education Director, Comparative Education Research Centre HKU Scholars Hub HKU website
	KWO, Ora Associate Professor HKU Scholars Hub personal website
	WANG, Dan Assistant Professor HKU Scholars Hub Personal Page
	ZHANG, Wei Post-Doctoral Fellow Shadow education in China and Japan Personal Page
	LI, Wenjian PhD student Tutoring centres
	KOBAKHIDZE, Magda Nutsa PhD student Comparative education, private tutoring, and teacher professional development
	MAHMUD, Rafsan PhD student Private Tutoring in Bangladesh
	YUNG, Wai Ho PhD student Shadow education, English learning motivation, learners' experience personal website
	LIU, Junyan PhD student Private tutoring in Beijing, mainland China
	FENG, Siyuan PhD student Shadow education, Tutor's Profesional development, Teacher Training
	GHOSH, Pubali MEd student Shadow Education in India.

Seminar

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