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Unit 2: Topic 7 - Educational Policy and Inequality
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Sociology
11th Grade
04/22/2015

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Tripartite system
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The structural system of seocndary education created by the 1944 Education Act that described three types of schools: Grammar Schools, Secondary Modern Schools, and Technical Schools. The 11+ exam was used to identify which pupil's would go to which school.
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Grammar schools
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Secondary Modern schools
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Technical schools
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11+ exam
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Parentocracy
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Means 'rule by parents'. The concept relates to the marketisation of the education system, which is based on an ideology that the parents have the power to have choice of school.
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Myth of parentocracy
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Post-comprehensive era
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Assimilation
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"Saris, samosas, and steel bands"
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Criticism of multicultural education institutions: displaying stereotypes of different cultures does not mean that the dominent culture values or understands the culture being presented.
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