Doherty, C. and Dooley, K. (2018) Responsibilising parents: the nudge towards shadow tutoring. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(4), pp. 551-566. (doi: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1377600)
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Abstract
This article considers moral agendas projected onto parents that mobilise them to supplement school literacy education with private tutoring. The theoretical frame draws on the concepts of responsibilisation as emerging market-embedded morality, ‘nudge’ social policies, edu-business and hidden privatisation in education. This framing is applied to two empirical moments: firstly, debates around the Australian government’s ‘Tutorial Voucher Initiative’ of 2004; and secondly, tutoring advertisements and items in school newsletters collected in early 2016. In the first moment, parents were somewhat reluctant to take up free supplementary tutoring; in the second, private literacy tutoring is increasingly normalised and legitimated as parents are nudged to supplement the work of the school.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Doherty, Prof Catherine |
| Authors: | Doherty, C., and Dooley, K. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Journal Name: | British Journal of Sociology of Education |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0142-5692 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1465-3346 |
| Published Online: | 21 September 2017 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| First Published: | First published in British Journal of Sociology of Education 2017 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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