The tripartite system
Basic description and evalutation of the tripartite system
- Created by: Grace Kent
- Created on: 01-05-13 20:24
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- The tripartite system
- Introduced by the labour government
- The three parts of the system
- Grammar schools; elite, pass the 11+,
- Technical schools
- Secondary modern schools
- Promoted social mobility
- Did not matter how much money you had.
- Meritocracy; how hard you worked determined how well you did
- Did not matter how much money you had.
- Criticisms
- Presumes child peaks at 11
- 11+ was culturally biased against working class
- middle/upper class parents privately tutor
- secondary moderns looked like failures, stigma
- Marxists say it was a way of putting w/class in their place
- Introduced by the labour government
- Grammar schools; elite, pass the 11+,
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