英文摘要 |
The equal educational opportunity has always been an important focus of public concern. Public and private sectors invest considerable resources in after-school tutoring programs to close the achievement gap at the primary school level caused by the inequality in economic capital as well ascultural capital among families. After-school tutoring programs often hire college students as teaching staff, which not only generates income for the students, but also provides them with the opportunity to be in contact with and understand disadvantaged children.From the sociological perspective, however, due to the division created by habitus and cultural capital within the educational field,social classes often reproduce themselves.In light of that,this study aims to investigate the impact created by after-school tutoring classrooms upon class reproduction. The study employed the ethnographic and observational method to both acquire and analyze data from more than 60 after-school tutors, and Bourdieu’s field theory was found to be able to explain the following: 1. Thereis homology between the after-school tutoring program and schools, and this affects the autonomy of the tutoring program; 2. The tutors use symbolic violence to secure their pedagogical power; however,that not only reinforces the pupils’ class consciousness and habitus,but further deepens the hostile relationship with the tutors; 3. The autonomy of the tutors may start to take place when they abandon the use of symbolic violence. While the academia and educational institutions are striving for the improvement upon the effectiveness of the tutoring programs, the curriculum, and the teaching methods, the significance of this study lies within the sociological perspective it provides via which the tensions and difficulties possibly encountered by the tutors in the field can be understood. This study further suggests that by pointing the tutors to a new direction, i.e. to reclaim their autonomy and reflexivity,it can interrupt the reproduction mechanism in their educational practice. |