Privat education – a supplement and a venture Cover Image

Tömegoktatás és kiegészítő magánoktatás-ipar
Privat education – a supplement and a venture

Author(s): Györi János Gordon
Subject(s): School education, State/Government and Education, Social development, Social differentiation, Sociology of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: non-school education; private education; public schools; school systems; mass public education;

Summary/Abstract: Describes the worldwide phenomenon of non-formal (non-school) private education as a ’hidden industry’. These hidden activities – parallel to the public education and in the shadow of the state school systems – are generated by mass schooling. Although mass schooling has been designed to decrease social and cultural inequalities, paradoxically it increase them. The ’hidden school industry’ is beneficiary mostly for the middle class. Mass public education – monopolised and centralised by the government – develops its shadow private system, and with it, the mass public education fulfills its social mission. Private and public in the future, the author hopes, may cooperate in the future on the ’market’ of national educations.

  • Issue Year: 17/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 263-274
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian