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Flashcards by Ashleigh Gildroy, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ashleigh Gildroy
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| Butler Education Act (1944) The Tripartite System | The Butler Act made it compulsory for all children to go to school (primary) between the ages of five and eleven. At age 11, every child would take an examination called the 11+. The children would be sent to one three types of school, based on the results they got from the 11+ exam |
| Selection by 11+ | Those who passed: Grammar school: Taught academic subjects: Mainly middle-class children Those who didn't: Secondary Modern Schools: Vocational subjects: Mainly working-class children Other: Technical Schools: Train student's in mechanical and scientific subjects |
| Strengths of the Tripartite System | Meritocracy: Everyone is equal as they're all judged on ability (However, Middle Class have better learning resource) Suits needs of learner: Children were allocated to schools best suited to their ability, creating a better and fairer experience for the students Social Mobility: Opens up an opportunity to improve their social status |
| Weaknesses of the Tripartite System | Gender Bias: The pass mark for girls was higher than the mark for boys, so boys didn't appear inferior or unmasculine, showing that the system was still extremely unequal despite its efforts to bring classes together Late Developer: The process was unfair, many felt that 11 was too young to determine the intellect of a child |
| Weaknesses of the Tripartite System | Still unequal: A big criticism is that despite it's best efforts to encourage social equality it only made it worse as working class students were materially deprived, unlike middles class youths. This meant they were more likely to attend a secondary modern school, simply because they didn't have the money or resources, thus arguably widening the social division between the working-class and middle-class |
| The Development of Comprehensive | Comprehensive education abolished the 11+ exam and the different types of secondary school. Secondary schools became comprehensives. Originally, children were placed in their local school, rather than having a choice regardless of social background or ability. True comprehensive schools have no selection by ability at all and a diverse range of schools was admitted to the same type of school and taught a range of academic and vocational subjects |
| Strengths of the Tripartite System | Equality: Gender bias was removed and every student despite their intellect was able to learn academic subjects. This improves the quality of opportunity for working-class students. More Success: More students were leaving school with more qualifications than those in school during the Tripartite system |
| Weaknesses of the Tripartite System | Still unequal and socially divisive: Middle-Class students were often found in the top sets, whilst working class students were found at the bottom. This creates social divisions and it separates both classes based on intellect Catchment areas: Working class students often lived in working class environments, so their local school was more likely to be poor than middle-class environments |
| Conservative Educational Policies |
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