Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos; 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 &apos;double-edged sword&apos;. First, because it serves as a &apos;weapon&apos; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos; 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 &apos;double-edged sword&apos;. First, because it serves as a &apos;weapon&apos; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-00939S" target="_blank" >GA18-00939S: Souvislosti mezi školním a stínovým vzděláváním: případ českých nižších sekundárních škol</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Research Papers in Education

ISSN

0267-1522

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

37

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

1042-1063

Kód UT WoS článku

000636088200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85105439528