Collection of websites of private entrepreneurs offering preparation programs for CEE in Zurich (city)
In: 2097-2-0;; (2023)
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Educational aspirations have risen worldwide, and educational policies in many countries have sought to increase the numbers of students gaining access to tertiary and higher education (OECD, 2017; 2019: 3). Alongside public education, supplementary learning activities, such as private tutoring and test preparation courses, are expanding significantly in all world regions (Bray, 2017: 476). These global trends can also be observed in Switzerland. What makes the country a special case internationally is that, in comparison to other OECD countries, the rise of educational aspirations and the growing demand for higher education qualifications takes place in a context of relatively restricted access to and relatively low graduation rates from Gymnasium, which grants direct access to university education (SKBF, 2018). In this a competitive environment, private, fee-based supplementary learning programs have witnessed a boom, above all in cantons with highly selective educational systems (Hof & Wolter, 2014). Complementary to this increasing market of private supplementary learning programs, schools and private initiatives have started to offer own programs that are free of cost to students (e.g. Stadt Zürich, 2011). This project analyzes educational transitions to Gymnasium at this crossroads of increasing competition and equality of opportunity (Chancengleichheit) through a case study in the City of Zurich. Convinced of a need to extend scholarly literature with research that engages with how educational transitions to Gymnasium unfold for various “market stakeholders”, we pay particular attention to the perspectives and discursive representations of school representatives, private and nonprivate suppliers of preparation courses, and young people attending supplementary learning programs and their families.We pursue three goals in our study: (1) conceptually, we apply a critical human geography approach to students` educational transition to Gymnasium; (2) methodologically, we add a qualitative research design ...
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Collection of websites of private entrepreneurs offering preparation programs for CEE in Zurich (city)
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bauer, Itta ; Landolt, Sara |
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Quelle: | 2097-2-0;; (2023) |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
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DOI: | 10.48573/vxqe-zg53 |
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