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The Demand for Private Tutoring in Turkey

Unintended Consequences of Curriculum Reform

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Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean

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This chapter focuses on the private tutoring phenomenon in Turkey. It seeks to analyse the impact of the revision of primary school curriculum on the demand for private tutoring. It also outlines various academic, economic and social implications of private tutoring.

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  1. Hülya Koşar Altinyelken
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  1. University of Hong Kong, China

    Mark Bray

  2. University of British Columbia, Canada

    André E. Mazawi

  3. University of Malta, Malta

    Ronald G. Sultana

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Altinyelken, H.K. (2013). The Demand for Private Tutoring in Turkey. In: Bray, M., Mazawi, A.E., Sultana, R.G. (eds) Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-237-2_12

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