Rise and Fall of the Comprehensive School Idea in the Netherlands. Political and Educational Debates on the Middle School Project (1969-1993)

Autor/inn/en	Greveling, Linda; Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Dekker, Jeroen J. H.
Titel	Rise and Fall of the Comprehensive School Idea in the Netherlands. Political and Educational Debates on the Middle School Project (1969-1993)
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 14 (2015) 3-4, S.269-292 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904115589038
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; Middle School Students; Equal Education; Educational Change; Educational History; Politics of Education; Educational Innovation; Educational Policy; School Choice; Resistance to Change; Core Curriculum; Ideology; Social Systems; Failure; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarbereich; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Politics of education; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Kerncurriculum; Ideologie; Social system; Soziales System; Niederlande
Abstract	Dutch comprehensive education eventually failed on a political level, despite support from many politicians, labour unions and branches in the educational practice. In the early 1970s denominational political parties strove for a Middle School to provide equal opportunities of all children by postponing school choice. From 1973 onwards, however, the Middle School was given a socialist appeal, which led to strong critique from both the right-wing Liberal Party and teachers in higher secondary education united in The Dutch Association of Teachers. By resisting, the right-wing Liberals struck a chord with the denominational parties over their fear of indoctrination and the threatening of the constitutional freedom of education. The many proponents, including those from the field of education, tried to influence the political debate by publishing their ideas on the Middle School, but their efforts were to no avail. The outcome, therefore, was that in 1993 there were to be no Middle Schools, only the realisation of a common curriculum for the first phase of secondary education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01