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Transnational meritocracy? Parent ideologies and private tutoring

Dooley, K., Briant, E. and Doherty, C. (2020) Transnational meritocracy? Parent ideologies and private tutoring. In: Lee, J. C.-K. and Gough, N. (eds.) Transnational Education and Curriculum Studies: International Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 114-127. ISBN 9781138480889 (doi: 10.4324/9781351061629-8)

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Abstract

This chapter is interested in the educational ideologies that accompany transnationally mobile families, the strategies these ideologies inform, and the dynamics these strategies can produce in local settings and systems. Drawing on a sub-set of three interviews with transnational parents drawn from a broader study on private tutoring, the analysis profiles three different dispositions towards the use of private tutoring as an educational strategy informed by different ideologies of meritocratic competition and childhood. We argue that transnational families’ use of private tutoring is evidence of parentocratic logic, rather than meritocratic. Private tutoring is one resource mobilised in transnational families’ educational strategies as they seek to negotiate disjunctures between their home and host countries, and to mitigate risks generated by mobility.

Item Type:	Book Sections
Keywords:	Transnationalism, private tutoring, childhood, ideologies, parentocracy.
Status:	Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:	Doherty, Prof Catherine
Authors:	Dooley, K., Briant, E., and Doherty, C.
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > L Education (General)
College/School:	College of Social Sciences > School of Education
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781138480889
Copyright Holders:	Copyright © 2021 The Contributors
First Published:	First published in Transnational Education and Curriculum Studies: International Perspectives: 114-127
Publisher Policy:	Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
0		Private literacy tutoring: A sociology of shadow education’	Prof Karen Dooley, QUT	Australian Research Council	UNSPECIFIED

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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code:	221206
Depositing User:	Prof Catherine Doherty
Datestamp:	24 Jul 2020 10:07
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2022 09:00
Date of first online publication:	July 2020
Date Deposited:	24 July 2020