Shadow Education and Social Inequalities in Japan: Evolving Patterns and Conceptual Implications

✍ Scribed by Steve R. Entrich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines why Japan has one of the highest enrolment rates in cram schools and private tutoring worldwide. It sheds light on the causes of this high dependence on ‘shadow education’ and its implications for social inequalities. The book provides a deep and extensive understanding of the role of this kind of education in Japan. It shows new ways to theoretically and empirically address this issue, and offers a comprehensive perspective on the impact of shadow education on social inequality formation that is based on reliable and convincing empirical analyses.

Contrary to earlier studies, the book shows that shadow education does not inevitably result in increasing or persisting inequalities, but also inherits the potential to let students overcome their status-specific disadvantages and contributes to more opportunities in education. Against the background of the continuous expansion and the convergence of shadow education systems across the globe, the findings of this book call for similar works in other national contexts, particularly Western societies without traditional large-scale shadow education markets. The book emphasizes the importance and urgency to deal with the modern excesses of educational expansion and education as an institution, in which the shadow education industry has made itself (seemingly) indispensable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Introduction (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 1-23
Front Matter ....Pages 25-25
The Setting (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 27-72
Theoretical Approach (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 73-88
Data and Methods (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 89-124
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
Access to Shadow Education (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 127-153
Effects of Shadow Education (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 155-184
Persistence of Shadow Education (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 185-214
Change of Shadow Education (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 215-256
Conclusion (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 257-274
Excursus (Steve R. Entrich)....Pages 275-305
Back Matter ....Pages 307-309

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education