An ordinary moonlighting activity? Determinants of the provision of private tutoring by Czech schoolteachers

Vít Šťastný, Martin Chvál and Eliška Walterová

International Journal of Educational Development, 2021, vol. 81, issue C

Abstract: Teacher moonlighting (teachers working other jobs in addition to teaching) may have positive as well as negative implications. In the context of post-socialist countries, the provision of private tutoring is one of the common forms of teacher moonlighting. The aim of the paper is to analyse the prevalence and factors that are associated with a) having a paid job in addition to one’s regular teaching obligations; b) provision of private tutoring among teachers. Results are drawn from a representative sample of 494 Czech teachers of academic school subjects in lower secondary schools who responded to an online questionnaire survey. Male teachers working part-time, with shorter professional experience, higher household financial burden and lower satisfaction with teacher salaries were more likely to moonlight. The provision of private tutoring was only associated with shorter professional experience and the teaching of core subjects, suggesting that Czech teachers’ motivation to provide private tutoring is currently not primarily financial.

Keywords: Teacher moonlighting; Private tutoring; Teacher salaries; Determinants; Czech Republic; Lower secondary teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102351

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