The relationship of the 1918 and 1872 Education (Scotland) Acts

Lindsay Paterson

doi:10.51166/27730840-05302007

The relationship of the 1918 and 1872 Education (Scotland) Acts

Lindsay Paterson

School of Social and Political Science

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Abstract

Two large changes link the 1872 and 1918 Education (Scotland) Acts. One is the development of secondary education, which happened gradually between the two dates, with searching debates about the meaning, purpose, and demographic reach of advanced education of this kind. The main purpose of the 1918 Act was to make secondary provision more coherent, ensuring that its gradual extension to female, Catholic and working-class students would be sustained. The other is modernising educational governance, which meant combining a partly democratic oversight with the growing professionalism of teachers. These changes laid the basis for Scottish school education in the welfare state. So 1872 started a process which 1918 made into a stable system that, in significant respects, persists to the present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-103
Number of pages	16
Journal	Scottish Educational Review
Volume	53
Issue number	2
Early online date	27 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.51166/27730840-05302007
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2022

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secondary education
professionalism
democracy

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Education and Society in Scotland: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Paterson, L. (Principal Investigator)
Other
1/09/18 → 31/08/21
Project: Research

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