Pupil‐teacher Relationships in Co‐educational and Single‐sex Grammar Schools

S ummary . The sample population was some 2,000 ex‐grammar school pupils who were intending teachers; it was, therefore, representative of only a section of the grammar school population. A previous article based on 1,500 of this sample reported that the co‐educated women found the school atmosphere pleasanter and life in school happier than did the women educated in girls' schools; the co‐educated men had similar but slighter trends, significant only for school atmosphere. The co‐educated men and women expressed a very much greater preference for co‐education than their opposite numbers did for single‐sex education. The present article describes a first attempt to discover the reasons for these opinions, in the region of pupil‐teacher relationships. The co‐educated women thought their teachers more friendly, more helpful, more influential for good and less influential for bad, than did the women from girls' schools. These results support and extend the previous findings

Atmosphere (unit) · Developmental psychology · Geography · Grammar · Grammar school · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Population · Preference · Pupil · Sample (material) · Single sex · Sociology · Demography · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Professional Development and Motivation

• The sociology of education in Britain, 1960-1968

  Open Access•Donald F Swift, Henry Acland et al.•Social Science Information•1969

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