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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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First published in 1998. This is Volume XVIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This study looks at the parity and prestige factors in English secondary school education and initially written in 1955. It looks at the desired aim of the secondary school as ensuring that every child receives the education most suited to his or her capacities and interests, irrespective of social class or occupational destiny, with the reality that some school may acquire prestige from the social standing either of the majority of his pupils or from the occupations for which they to be prepared.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Higher Grade Schools; Chapter 3 Sir Robert Morant and Secondary School Curricula; Chapter 4 The Higher Elementary Schools; Chapter 5 The Free Place Regulations; Chapter 6 Secondary School Curriculum 1907-1939; Chapter 7 The School Certificate Examination; Chapter 8 Central Schools and Junior Technical Schools; Chapter 9 Secondary Education for All; Chapter 10 TriPart itism and the Multilateral Principle; Chapter 11 The Technical High School; Chapter 12 The Grammar Schools and Occupational Choice; Chapter 13 The Secondary Grammar School; Chapter 14 The Secondary Modern School; Chapter 15 The Public Schools and the General Educational System; Chapter 16 Secondary Education and the Social Structure;
Biography
Olive Banks