Educational policy in Britain before 1988
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- Educational policy in Britain before 1988
- Selection: the tripartite system
- children selected and allocated to 1 of 3 secondary schools based on aptitudes and abilities
- abilities identified by 11+ exams
- grammar schools: offered academic curriculum and access to non manual jobs. For pupils who passed 11+ exams, mainly middle class
- secondary modern school: offered non academic 'practical' curriculum and access to manual work. For pupils who failed 11+ exams, mainly working class
- technical schools only existed in few areas
- reproduced class inequality by channeling 2 classes into different schools
- The comprehensive school system
- aimed to overcome class divide and make education meritocratic
- 11+ exams abolished along with grammar schools and secondary moderns.
- comprehensive schools that all pupils within the area would attend
- local education authority decided whether to 'go comprehensive' so grammar-secondary modern divide still exists
- functionalist view
- promote social integration by bringing children of all classes together
- more meritocratic as gives longer to develop abilities
- Marxist view
- reproduces class inequality through streaming
- Selection: the tripartite system
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