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The Sixth: An Essay in Education and Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Sixth: An Essay in Education and Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Developments in educational systems are inextricably linked with
the social and political evolution of nations. Nowhere is this more
clearly to be seen than in the history of the English sixth form.
Originally published in 1982, this book, whose authors had been
associated with a number of research projects into 16-19 education,
traces the tradition of the sixth form from its origins in the
public schools of the nineteenth century through to controversies
at the time, over sixth form and tertiary colleges and the
extension of 16-19 education to embrace youth opportunities
programmes and other semi-vocational courses. It shows that 'the
sixth' has not only been a significant element in its own right in
the adjustment of English society to the challenge of democratic
ideals, but has also played a key role in the evolution of
secondary education from the endowed school of the nineteenth
century, through the municipal grammar schools set up after the
1902 Education Act, to the comprehensive secondary schools of
today. In fact, the fate and future of comprehensive schooling
becomes fully understandable only through a study of the sixth form
tradition which has shaped the activities of educationists and
policy-makers over the last hundred years. The authors conclude
that educational policy-making is both facilitated and constrained
by the existence of enduring traditions stemming from the past: in
fact, the work of policy-making lies precisely in the constructive
reinterpretation of that inheritance. This book describes and
clarifies the nature of the tradition of sixth form education which
has been handed down to us, and its relation to democratic values
and institutions.
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