Education - History

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Why was the 1870 Elementary Education Act significant?
It made full time education compulsory, it provided for management and maintenance for schools, new schools built and school boards established
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What were the social effects of the 1870 Act?
It interfered with children helping their families and households so they were kept back from school
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Why has the 1870 Act been called a compromise
It accepted a bad system and filled in gaps creating a dual system
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How does Steinbach (2015) define gender
It is 2 things - a thing and a process
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At what time point did language and gender become a major research area
In the 1970s - with the emergence of feminism
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How has women's access to education changed over time?
Generally increasing
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When women had access to education, what issue arose?
They were learning different subjects more suited to the stereotypical roles of women
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Why is gender and education important in history
Because they are an important aspect of history that have mixed perceptions
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Outline the perspective that education is a means of social control
Mass education reflects stratification, reproduces it with a mythology of opportunity to maintain social order
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Outline a social democratic perspective on education
Education can be appropriated by new social forces and increase opportunity and social mobility
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Outline a conservative view of education
there is an inevitable stratification within education due to stratification from ability and social class
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Define public school
Fee paying and usually a boarding school supported by the rich
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What kind of schools were middle class children likely to attend?
Grammar schools
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