香港影子教育下的学习、教学和研究:自传式叙事研究

Learning, Teaching, and Researching in Shadow Education in Hong Kong: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry

本文从一名内部人士的视角来说明在香港参与补习的生活经历,分别以学生、补习导师和研究人员的角色,对影子教育普遍存在的几个问题给予分析并获得启示。本文采用自传式叙事研究方法,数据来源于作者的事件回忆录,受启发于自身作为学员和导师时使用的教材、自己的视频录课,以及研究项目的反思日记。基于作者在补习行业扮演不同角色的叙述,本文讨论了几个主要问题,包括(1)影子教育对主流教育积极和消极影响的反思,(2)缺乏对补习教师和广告质量的严格规范,(3)影子教育如何加剧教育不平等以及一些补习机构和非营利组织如何解决这一问题。就作者所知,本文是唯一一篇从作者自身作为学生、导师和研究人员的个人经历来讨论影子教育问题的文章,它从内部人士视角阐述了香港补习行业的实践和政策发展。

This article aims to illustrate the lived experiences of engaging in private tutoring in Hong Kong as a tutee,a tutor,and a researcher and draw implications on several issues arising from the prevalence of shadow education.This article adopted an autobiographical narrative approach.Data were collected through the author’s memoir of events,stimulated by the tutorial materials he used when he was a tutee and a tutor,his video-recorded lessons of tutoring,and reflective journals from his research projects.Various issues are discussed based on the narrative of the author playing different roles in the tutoring industry,including the positive and negative washback on mainstream education;the lack of strict regulation of the quality of tutors and advertisements;how shadow education may exacerbate education inequality;and how some tutorial companies and nonprofit organizations are addressing the issue.This article,to the best of the author’s knowledge,is the only one that discusses the problems of shadow education from an author’s own personal experiences as a tutee,a tutor,and a researcher.It illustrates how practices and policies of the private tutoring industry are evolving in Hong Kong from an insider perspective.