CHAPTER 7 - Groups in the School

Abstract

This chapter presents a study to study certain groups in school. In certain curriculum matrix, the lower-row entries added up to nine time-blocks; this suggests that some strong reason exists for equating the class in the secondary school with one-ninth of the week. A very large number, perhaps the majority, of the curricula pursued by pupils aged 11–16 years, at any rate in the schools of Wales, are found to conform to this type. The secondary group is straightforward; it consists of one class only, which suggests that a woodwork set is at once a class and a secondary group. All three terms are in this connection synonymous. On the other hand, the primary group is subject to variation in the number of its component classes, which means that it can stay intact for one class in the week, or two classes or three, or any number up to a maximum that accounts for the entire school week.