3. The Education System Of England And Wales Flashcards
What are the historic reasons for the development of education systems
- child labour
- preparing a future workforce
- public health; school meals
- developing economy
- transmission of cultural values
- religious reasons
What is the 1944 education act
This act introduced secondary education for everyone from age 11
It introduced grammar schools and aimed at offering opportunities for specialist education for brighter children regardless of economic status
What happened in 1965
The introduction of comprehensive schools.
These schools intended to offer support by streaming pupils as grammar system had been found to advantage certain groups. This links to the educational triage Gilborn and Yodell
What was the impact on the national curriculum
This was introduced in 1988 to allow boys and girls to study for the first time which resulted in a long term impact with greater equality of opportunity.
Girls started to outperform boys during the 1990s and the focus has now become set on the underperformance of boys
What happened during the 1970s-1990s
Conservatives (New right) policy called for marketisation of education.
Marketisation refers to the school ran as a business rather than a council
Diversity of schools has increased
Includes: parental choice, league tables, meritocracy, social mobility, Charles Murray, chub and moe…
