Selection policies
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- Created on: 14-04-22 17:21
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- SELECTION POLICIES
- Tripartite system (1944)
- The 1944 Education Act brought in the tripartite system
- Children were to be allocated to 1 of 3 different types of secondary schools
- GRAMMAR SCHOOLS were for people who passed the 11+ exam
- Pupils were mainly middle-class
- offered an academic curriculum and access to non-manual jobs and higher education
- SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOLS
- For pupils who failed the 11+
- Pupils were mainly working class
- Offered a non-academic, 'practical' curriculum and access to manual work
- TECHNICAL SCHOOLS (only existed in few areas)
- Rather than promoting meritocracy
- The tripartite system and 11+ promoted inequality
- This was done by channelling the two social classes into two different types of schools that offered unequal opportunities
- The tripartite system and 11+ promoted inequality
- The tripartite system also justified inequality through the ideology that ability is inborn
- In reality, children's environment greatly affects their chances of success
- Middle class parents may be more able to pay for private tuition for their child to succeed
- Working class may not be able to focus in their household or suffer with material deprivation
- It was argued that ability could be measured early on in life through 11+
- In reality, children's environment greatly affects their chances of success
- Compre- hensive school system (1965)
- Aimed to overcome class divide
- to make education more meritocratic
- It was left to the local education authority to decide whether to go compre- hensive and not all did.
- Meaning the grammar secondary divide still exists in many areas
- FUNCTIONAL- ISTS VIEW
- See it as fulfilling the essential functions
- Meritocracy
- Social integration
- See it as fulfilling the essential functions
- MARXISTS VIEW
- Reproduces class inequality
- Through continuation of the practice of streaming and labelling
- Myth of meritocracy
- Serving the interests of capitalism
- Streaming
- Julienne Ford found little social mixing between working class and middle class due to streaming
- Reproduces class inequality
- Aimed to overcome class divide
- Tripartite system (1944)
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