Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions
and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private
tutoring

J 2025

Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring

ŠŤASTNÝ, Vít a Barbora NEKARDOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring

Autoři

ŠŤASTNÝ, Vít a Barbora NEKARDOVÁ

Vydání

Cambridge Journal of Education, 2025, 0305-764X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.500 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2025.2451282

UT WoS

999

Klíčová slova anglicky

Private tutoring; shadow education; parental involvement; self-efficacy; parental role construction; decision making

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 26. 1. 2026 09:13, doc. Mgr. Martin Sedláček, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

While previous research on private tutoring has focused predominantly on its meso- or macro-level determinants, this qualitative study, anchored in the literature on parental involvement, explores proximal factors, including psychological and situational influences, that affect parental decisions to seek private tutoring. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with 65 Czech parents, who considered buying or had bought private tutoring for their child. It demonstrates that due to their internalised active parental role, parents feel a strong obligation to intervene when their educational expectations for their children are unmet. Private tutoring is considered when parents cannot or do not want be directly involved because of various barriers. Parents then use private tutoring as a compensatory mechanism, effectively outsourcing their involvement to a proxy: a tutoring provider. This study contributes to existing literature by presenting a conceptual model illustrating the interplay of these proximal factors, which can be further empirically tested.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1604/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Cesty učení: výzkum kontextu, prediktorů i výstupů

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Cesty učení: výzkum kontextu, prediktorů i výstupů

Citovat

ŠŤASTNÝ, Vít a Barbora NEKARDOVÁ. Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring. Cambridge Journal of Education. 2025, roč. 31.1.2025, 31.1.2025, s. 113-133. ISSN 0305-764X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2025.2451282.

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ŠŤASTNÝ, Vít a Barbora NEKARDOVÁ. Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring. \textit{Cambridge Journal of Education}. 2025, roč.~31.1.2025, 31.1.2025, s.~113-133. ISSN~0305-764X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2025.2451282.

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