Education and Social Policies Flashcards

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What are social policies?

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Actions taken by the government to deal with issues in society

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What can the issues social policies deal with be?

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Education

The family

Crime

Health

Transport

Defence

Poverty etc

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When was education made compulsory?

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Made compulsory for all children up to the age of 10 in 1880

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What did the education act of 1944 introduce?

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Introduced tripartite system of three secondary schools based on ability

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What determined what school children attended?

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An 11+ test determined the school a child attended

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What were the three types of secondary schools?

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Grammer school (passed 11+) - academic O/A levels

Secondary modern (failed 11+) - no exams

Technical school (failed 11+)

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What is cultural capital?

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The knowledge, language, manners, attitudes, values and lifestyles possessed by the middle class and passed onto their children through primary socialisation to help them succeed in a middle class habitus of education

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Why might cultural capital put the middle class at an advantage?

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The middle class already have the habitus of education and will have learnt this habitus though primary socialisation and therefore will do better in education

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