Marketisation – bringing out the worst in the middle classes
This documentary (The School Scandal: Playing the System, BBC1 August 2015) shows the lengths parents will go to in order to get their children into the top performing state schools in London. Some of...
View ArticleSociological Perspectives on Modern Apprenticeships in the UK
The material below is relevant to the Vocationalism topic within the Sociology of Education and should help students to answer essay questions such as ”Evaluate Sociological Perspectives on the role...
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The Corporate Takeover of Education? Pearson’s Rapidly Expanding Control of...
Amidst the other aspects of the privatisation of education (Marketisation, Academies, Free Schools, Apprenticeships, Tuition Fees etc.) you may have missed this aspect! Pearson PLC is a FTSE 100...
View ArticleUsing qualitative data to evaluate how material deprivation effects children...
This post follows on from this one – The extent of material deprivation in the UK. One of the things you need to look at for the AS Education module is the extent to which material deprivation is...
View ArticleCross National Comparisons to Evaluate the Functionalist View on Education
If you’re here for A level Sociology revision material, then please visit my other site – Revisesociology.com I’m in the process of moving all of my A-level material over to Revisesociology.com, this...
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Gender and Education – Evaluating the Role of Out of School Factors (draft one)
One of the out of school factors which could explain why girls do better than boys in education is that girls have higher aspirations than boys. Here’s some recent research which supports this while...
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The extent of material deprivation in the UK
One of the things you have to consider as part of the Education module in AS Sociology is the extent to which material deprivation is responsible for differential educational achievement (mainly) by...
View ArticlePointillist Time, Blase Attitudes and Anomic Melancholy – why today’s...
Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid modern challenges to education. Lecture given at the coimbra group annual conference – Padova, 26 may 2011 This lecture mostly focusses on outlining the ways in which young...
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The truancy map of England and Wales (infographics evaluation)
A new blog-theme I’m getting into – A critical look at infographics – Mostly going to focus on education for the coming months… In 2012 Simon Rogers from The Guardian put together this Interactive...
View ArticleThe Decline of Religious Education in British Schools
A recent OFSTED report – Religious Education: Realising the Potential – highlights the declining* provision and standards of R.E. in schools. R.E, or Philosophy and Ethics as it is sometimes called, is...
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