预告│第132期华夏课程论坛：影子教育在中欧

Vít Šťastný is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Research and Development of Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in the field of Education studies. His research interests include shadow education and comparative education.

He is the principal investigator of the research project called The link between mainstream and shadow education: the case of Czech lower-secondary schools supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. Previously, he has worked as a teacher in French and Czech secondary school, he also collaborates with Czech School Inspectorate in the field of large scale assessments and external school evaluation.

The scale of private supplementary tutoring, known in the scholarly literature as shadow education, has grown tremendously in recent decades to an extent that it has become a global phenomenon. In central and eastern Europe, the shadow education became apparent after the fall of Iron curtain during the process of transition and transformation in 1990s and has grown significantly in the countries of the former eastern bloc since then. 

The author will present a case study of the shadow education phenomenon in the Czech Republic to demonstrate wider patterns and distinctive traits of the shadow education in the region of central Europe. Based on the available empirical evidence and results of his own research among upper secondary students, the author presents findings about the nature, scale, curricular content and forms of private supplementary tutoring at various levels of education system, and discusses the drivers of the demand and implications for pupils, parents, teachers, policymakers and other stakeholders.