Publication details
Proč rodiče zajišťují soukromé doučování svým dětem?
| Title in English | Why do parents procure private tutoring for their children? |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The paper presents the results of a qualitative probe into parents’ thinking about procuring private tutoring for their children. The research is carried out in the form of semi-structured interviews with parents who have recently arranged private tutoring for their child (or are seriously considering to do so). Parents who fulfill the basic criteria (their children attend 5th to 9th grade of primary school or lower grade of multi-year grammar school and have recently provided private lessons or course?s to them) are selected according to the principle of maximum variation to assure the diversity of the sample. So far, parents, especially from larger cities, have been included in the sample. The central motive of the parents interviewed so far is dissatisfaction with the teaching of a particular subject at school. Especially in English, parents perceive that there is a lack of opportunities for conversation and practice. Some parents associate their motivation with a sense of their own inability to use a foreign language and an effort to keep their child away from having the same problem, so they choose a variety of foreign language activities for the child from an early age, including tutoring, to help them master the foreign language. From their point of view, school teaching of a given subject often becomes a „waste of time“. Different motivations are associated with tutoring aimed at entrance examination preparation. As the sample grows, the authors expect to uncover greater variability in the mechanisms related to parental decision making in the matter of private tutoring. They plan to include also parents from small towns and rural areas, which will likely increase the variability of the sample and findings. |