Shadow Education and Social Reproduction

Multiple Factors Promoting the Social Reproduction Functions of Shadow Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220131.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

shadow education; compulsory education; social reproduction; educational equity

Abstract

Education plays an important role in facilitating the flow of resources among different social classes and thus promoting social reproduction. Shadow education, also called extracurriculum activities or after-school tutoring, also plays a role in facilitating social reproduction. The special role of shadow education, in which requires extra financial investments to participate, contributes to the greater educational inequality in the field of education and thus further contributes to the social reproduction. Shadow education has developed significantly recently in China and it also plays a role in solving the problem of educational inequities in China. Despite its fast growing and development, however, no enough review studies have been done on after-school tutoring/shadow education due to a variety of reasons. For example, relevant data is difficult to collect. Neither domestic scholars in China nor foreign scholars around the world have studied the shadow education field in China with breadth and depth. Thus, this paper reviews studies on the factors promoting the social reproduction functions of shadow education. This paper summaries that family capital (e.g., family background), social capital (e.g. school location, school ranking, class sizes), and individual capital (e.g., gender, numbers of children, cognitive level, age) have great influence on the social reproduction functions of shadow education. This paper also provides suggestions for schools, the government, parents, and the society on how to address the educational inequality further caused by shadow education. This paper has implications for scholars who is interested in exploring the role and factors promoting social reproduction functions of shadow education in China.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mei Bai
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - Shadow Education and Social Reproduction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 260
EP  - 265
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.047
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.047
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