Structured vs Free Education

  • Education Act (1944)

    First established free education for children between 11- 15, and introduced the 11+
  • Education Act (1950)

    End of Tripartite system, introducution of comprehensive schooling, setting and streaming.
  • Goffman

    Total instutions
  • Plowden Report

  • Period: to

    Decline in births impacting on schools meaning children started school at 4

  • Vygotskian Theory

    Vygotskian Theory
    Theorist empathsing the importance of Make- believe play and how it can enhance academic skills
  • 1988 Education Act

    Brought in the National Curriculam, OFSTED and Leauge tabels
  • Boys failing academically

    More pressure for more structure within education, to level the attainmet gap
  • National Curriculam fully enforced in ks1 and 2

  • Excellence in Schools (Numeracy & Literacy Standards)

    Required a miminal teaching time for numeracy and literacy
  • Blatchford- The problem of break-times

  • Sencondary National Strategy (SNS)

  • Archives of Pediatrics & Adolsence medicine

    Paper announced that children's free time has fallen by 1/4 between 1981- 1997
  • EYFS Created (DfCSF), including Early Learning Goals

  • Serious Play Conference

  • Rose reveiw

  • DCSF into DfE (Government change, Labour- Conservative)