"Varmits and Turnips": Personal Experiences of a Secondary Modern Education, 1958-1962

Autor/in	Black, John
Titel	"Varmits and Turnips": Personal Experiences of a Secondary Modern Education, 1958-1962
Quelle	In: FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 55 (2013) 3, S.507-515 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-8253
DOI	10.2304/forum.2013.55.3.507
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; High Schools; Teaching (Occupation); Personal Narratives; Educational History; Educational Change; Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; High school; Oberschule; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Erlebniserzählung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsreform; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht
Abstract	This article is not intended to be an autobiography. It relates to the experiences of the author as a pupil in a secondary modern school in Wiltshire during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He suffered the experience of being an 11-plus failure and a secondary modern graduate at the age of 15 years. Later in life he had a much more rewarding career as a teacher in a comprehensive school. He supports the comprehensive school ethos because he had previously experienced the alternative. This article relates what his perceptions were of being a pupil in a secondary modern school, with a mixture of the "old guard teachers" brought up on the Hadow ideology of a modern school, and the more dynamic young teachers who entered the school and had a profound influence on the author in shaping his future life and career. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10