Abstract
Book review: Bray, M., Kobakhidze, M. N., & Kwo, O. Shadow Education in Myanmar: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications. Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, and UNESCO, 2020, 134 pp.
Highlights
Bray, accredited with drawing academic attention to the field of shadow education, analogised private tutoring research to assembly of a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing because of its nascent stage of research. He and his team of researchers have continued their pursuit to fill in missing pieces of the puzzle, resulting in a wide body of literature that has conceptualised and unravelled the private tutoring phenomenon in several regions of the world
In the book under review, Bray, along with his co-authors Kobakhidze and Kwo, shines the light on Myanmar, providing a very useful and rich account of private tutoring there. Drawing on their expertise and knowledge of private tutoring in other countries, the authors have collected rich data with the support of local teams, and have reported contextual findings to serve their purpose of identifying policy implications
The book begins with a briefing on international and comparative private tutoring research
Summary
The book begins with a briefing on international and comparative private tutoring research. Shadow Education in Myanmar: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Bray, accredited with drawing academic attention to the field of shadow education, analogised private tutoring research to assembly of a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing because of its nascent stage of research.
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