Teachers as Tutors: Shadow Education Market Dynamics in Georgia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

   Pages 3-17

3. Society and Education in Georgia

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4. Theoretical Framework

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   Pages 65-79

5. Research Design, Methods and Methodology

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   Pages 80-112

6. Teachers as Tutors

   • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

   Pages 113-143

7. Free Market of Education

   • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

   Pages 144-163

8. Economic Sociology of the Shadow Education Market

   • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

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9. Conclusions

   • Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

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10. Back Matter

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The so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring has become a global phenomenon but has different features in different settings. This book explores the ways in which teacher-tutors’ beliefs, social norms, ideals about professionalism, and community values shape their economic decisions in the informal shadow education marketplace. Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia. The book questions some of the basic assumptions that the predominant neoliberal discourse promotes worldwide.

The book is based on Kobakhidze’s PhD dissertation, which won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award.

“[A] theoretically innovative and substantively enlightening account of shadow schooling in Georgia… A landmark achievement.”
Roger Dale, University of Bristol

“… an important and timely topic … addressed with exceptional thoroughness. It constitutes a solid piece of academic work and clearly makes a significant contribution to the field of shadow education.”Heidi Biseth, University College of Southeast Norway, Chair of Gail P. Kelly Award Committee in 2017

“…through robust critical analysis, Kobakhidze invites a humanistic re-visioning of economy and society.“
Ora Kwo, The University of Hong Kong

• Private Supplementary Tutoring
• Shadow Education
• Economic Sociology
• Post-Soviet countries
• education in Georgia
• teacher-tutors
• neoliberal discourse
• Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
• Comparative Education Research Centre

“The author’s contribution to educational research is not only to inform policymakers and researchers concerned with teaching practices, but also to inform those concerned with student learning. … This book could become a classic in the field of educational research.” (Larry E. Suter, International Review of Education, Vol. 65, 2019)

• Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze

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