Conceptualizing shadow education as a form of oppression in the context of high-stakes testing

Conceptualizing shadow education as a form of oppression in the context of high-stakes testing

• Yung, Wai Ho Kevin The Education University of Hong Kong
• Kong, Siu Hang Eric The Education University of Hong Kong
• Fong, Natalie The University of Hong Kong

2024 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action" (AERA 2024) (2024: Philadelphia, United States)

• N Students & Student Services
  • NI Tutorial Classes / Schools

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Private tutoring, or shadow education, is one of the unintended outcomes of high-stakes testing worldwide. This study investigated the role of private tutoring in a context of high-stakes testing through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. This year-long in-depth study with 18 Grade-12 learners in private tutoring in Hong Kong shows that learning is skewed towards acquiring examination skills, and mainstream education can be devalued. Conceptualised with Freire’s Pedagogy of the oppressed, the findings reveal that learners are oppressed in the washback of high-stakes testing, and shadow education exploits such negative washback to run a business which reinforces contextual oppression. The findings provide implications for educational change in contexts where education systems increasingly rely on accountability and selection through high-stakes testing. Copyright © 2024 AERA.

Paper presented at 2024 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action" (AERA 2024), Philadelphia, United States.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/20cc8b72

2024-10-09