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Private Tutoring Across the MediterraneanPowers Dynamics & Implications for Learning and EquityMark Bray, André E. Mazawi,Ronald G. Sultana (Eds)Private tutoring is spread in all worldregions. Private supplementary tutoringis widely called ‘shadow education’ onthe grounds that much of its scale andshape is determined by mainstreamschooling, referred to shadow educationas ‘a set of educational activities outsideformal schooling that are designed toimprove a student’s chances of successfullymoving through the allocation process’within school. Private tutoring may haveimplications for personal development andfor pedagogy. It can contribute to long hoursof study each day, leading to imbalance between academic and other sides of life amongstudents, family members, and educators.This collection offers a set of critical insights into the complex and contextually-situatedarticulations and imbrications of this phenomenon and has a regional focus, namely theMediterranean broadly defined. It may be compared with similar collections in otherregions, some of which overlap. Focus on the Mediterranean as the region for analysis fitsthe core objectives of the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies (MJES), which is apartner with Sense Publishers in producing this work.Table of contents as well as a free Preview available at:https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/comparative-and-internationaleducation-a-diversity-of-voices/private-tutoring-across-the-mediterranean/109Volume 1 - Number 1 - 2013