Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F22%3A10426294" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/22:10426294 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fW5cS-JHoX" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fW5cS-JHoX</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2021.1907777" target="_blank" >10.1080/02671522.2021.1907777</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market
Original language description
Post-transformational neoliberal reforms in the Czech Republic have established a competitive quasi-market, in which - at the lower-secondary level - academic-track schools (grammar schools or gymnasia) compete for students in the regular-track schools. These reforms have also brought a rise of shadow education (private supplementary tutoring) provided by individuals and private companies. Even public schools are sometimes providers of shadow education. The study explores gymnasia principals' motivations to provide paid courses to prepare students for entrance examinations to their study programmes and the challenges they experience in doing so. The findings are drawn mainly from semi-structured interviews with principals and other school management members in eleven gymnasia. The study conceptualises such courses as a 'double-edged sword'. First, because it serves as a 'weapon' that academic schools use in the quasi-market competition to attract more (high-achieving) students from regular track schools, and second, because it may have both positive and negative consequences (e.g., for equity in education), depending on the conditions of its provision. The paper contributes to a wider scholarly literature by expanding the understanding of ways schools behave in the competitive educational quasi-markets and by opening a new branch of shadow education research.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-00939S" target="_blank" >GA18-00939S: The link between mainstream and shadow education: the case of Czech lower-secondary schools</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research Papers in Education
ISSN
0267-1522
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
1042-1063
UT code for WoS article
000636088200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105439528