Abstract

Summary The majority of Egyptian high school students and a large number of elementary students take private lessons in addition to regular classes at school. These private lessons are usually offered either at students' homes or in special “tutoring centres”. Due to the deficits of the overburdened public education system, the process of teaching and learning has partly been shifted into the informal and private sphere. Based on several months of ethnographic field work in tutoring centres in Cairo, I analyze the motivations of teachers and students for participating in this informal practice and look at the impact of private tutoring on the relationship between teachers and students. I describe the phenomenon as an “informal market of education”, where teachers act as “suppliers” and students as “consumers”. Students of all socio-economic backgrounds resort to tutoring in order to succeed in a highly competitive and exam-oriented education system. For many teachers, tutoring not only provides an opportu...

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