Responding to uncertainty: Examining Hong Kong parents' perceptions of private tutoring through the lens of timescapes

Responding to uncertainty: Examining Hong Kong parents' perceptions of private tutoring through the lens of timescapes

• Tsaloukidis, Alexandros The University of Hong Kong
• Kobakhidze, M. Nutsa The University of Hong Kong

Infancia y Aprendizaje, 46(4), 844-878, 2023

Taylor & Francis

2023

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AF Family & Development, Family Relationship, Reproduction & Child Rearing, Family Education, Parental Involvement
• N Students & Student Services
  • NI Tutorial Classes / Schools

COVID-19 Parental Perspectives Private Tutoring Shadow Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

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This paper explores how parents in Hong Kong perceive the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of academic and non-academic private tutoring (PT) for their children, using a thematic analysis of interviews with 80 parents from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. We seek to understand the role of PT in parents' thinking about their children's learning and developmental needs in uncertain times, which foregrounds parents' temporalities in the face of disruption. We find that maintaining pre-pandemic PT levels was the most common attitude for almost half of the sample, followed by roughly similar groups of parents who increased or decreased their use of PT. Parental perceptions of the functions of PT converged on three main uses: mitigating the effects of schooling disruptions, making productive use of newfound free time and providing a sense of normality. Using a timescapes lens, we identify temporal elements in how PT factored into parents' experiences and perceptions of managing 'gained' and 'lost' time, adapting to remote learning, avoiding health risks and reflecting on inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Copyright © 2023 Taylor & Francis.

• English

Journal Articles

• 02103702

• 10.1080/02103702.2023.2243195

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/ea899266

2024-05-17