Tripartite and Comprehensive System Flashcards
What is the Tripartite System?
The Tripartite System allocated children to 1 of 3 different types of secondary schools according to their natural abilities. This was identified by the 11+ exam.
What is the Education Act 1944?
In 1944 education was influenced by the idea of meritocracy and the Education Act 1944 brought in the Tripartite System.
What were the 3 schools produced by the Tripartite System?
Grammar Schools
Secondary Modern Schools
Technical Schools
What is a grammar school?
Grammar schools have an academic curriculum, which gives access to non-manual jobs and higher education. This is were those who pass the 11+ (mainly middle class) go.
What is a secondary modern school?
Secondary modern schools have an practical curriculum, which gives access to manual jobs. This is were those who fail the 11+ (mainly working class) go.
What is a technical school?
Technical schools provide a vocational education for those who fail the 11+ These schools only exist in a few areas.
How did the Tripartite System reproduce class inequality?
The Tripartite System gave unequal opportunities between social classes as the 11+ exam was biased towards the middle class cultural capital.
How did the Tripartite System reproduce gender inequality?
The Tripartite System required girls to gain higher marks than boys in 11+ to gain a place at a grammar school.
What is the Comprehensive School System?
From 1965 onwards the Comprehensive School System abolished the 11+, grammar and secondary modern schools, and replaced by comprehensive.
What do Functionalists believe about comprehensive schools?
Functionalists believe the comprehensive system promotes social integration by bringing different classes together in 1 school.
They believe comprehensives are more meritocratic as pupils have longer to develop abilities.
What do Marxists believe about comprehensive schools?
Marxists believe comprehensives aren’t meritocratic, as labelling and streaming reproduce class inequality and caused little mixing between social classes (Ford).
