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6. What kind of schools were middle class children likely to attend?

  • State schools
  • Grammar schools
  • Private schools
  • Public schools

7. What were the social effects of the 1870 Act?

  • It supported children to help their families and households so they were kept back from school
  • It had little to no effect
  • It interfered with children helping their families and households so they were kept back from school
  • It interfered with children helping their families and households but parents couldn't do anything

8. Outline a conservative view of education

  • there is not stratification within education as it is accessible to all
  • there is an inevitable stratification within education due to stratification from ability and social class
  • there is not stratification within education due to stratification from ability
  • there is an inevitable stratification within education due to stratification from norms and values

9. When women had access to education, what issue arose?

  • There wasn't enough places for women in education
  • They were learning different subjects more suited to the stereotypical roles of women
  • There weren't enough smart women
  • They were only accepted into all female schools

10. Why has the 1870 Act been called a compromise

  • The old system still stayed in place and nothing was changed it just became compulsory
  • It accepted a bad system and filled in gaps creating a dual system
  • It wasn't strong enough to do anything so some people compromised and went to school
  • It only suited the working classes and not the middle classes

11. How does Steinbach (2015) define gender

  • It is a thing
  • It is 2 things - a thing and a process
  • It is 3 things - a thing and a process and a being
  • It is a process

12. Which historian believed history of education is the history of class struggle manifested in schools and universities?

  • Brian Simon
  • Brian Sam
  • Brian Simone
  • Brian Smith

13. How has women's access to education changed over time?

  • Generally increasing
  • Generally staying the same
  • Generally decreasing
  • Generally fluctuating

14. Why was the 1870 Elementary Education Act significant?

  • It provided for management and maintenance for schools, new schools built and school boards established
  • It made full time education compulsory, it provided for management and maintenance for schools, new schools built
  • It made full time education compulsory, it provided for management and maintenance for schools, new schools built and school boards established
  • It made full time education compulsory, it provided for management and maintenance for schools, and school boards established