We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Auslese und Selbsteliminierung: Die Gymnasien zwischen elitärem Selbstanspruch und Multifunktionalität, 1945-1970.
- Authors
Zymek, Bernd
- Abstract
The author analyzes the ambivalent policy of selection followed by secondary schools in North-Rhine Westphalia during the early post-war decades: basically, both the ministry of education and the teaching staff requested a “selection of the gifted" at the grammar schools. However, all endeavors to implement systematic and state-wide procedures of diagnosis and selection met with mental opposition from both the parents and the teachers and thus had to be withdrawn quickly, making room for a decentralized handling of the selection of students entering grammar school. The selective character of grammar schools of that time was mainly due to the self-elimination of the vast majority of families with children entering secondary school and to their “multifunctional" use. Large numbers of the student body went to grammar school merely with the aim of meeting their obligation to attend school or of completing their middle school education, because in many places the system of middle schools was not yet fully developed and employment prospects were pretty good even without having completed A-levels. In a final part, the historical findings are discussed with regard to the present debate on selection.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 2015, Vol 61, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0044-3247
- Publication type
Article