BUNDLE - AQA GCSE Sociology: Education Topic 5 - The role of education (Functionalist, Marxist & Feminist views) (SAVE 23%)

L1 AQA GCSE Sociology Education: The Role of Education – Functionalism (Durkheim, Parsons, Davis & Moore)

• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify, describe and explain the functionalist roles of education, and analyse and evaluate how far education performs them.

• Covers the five functionalist roles: instilling social solidarity/cohesion, teaching specialist skills for work, bridging the gap between the family and wider society, meritocracy and achieved status, and role allocation.

• Covers the following key terms: Role/function, Formal curriculum, Hidden curriculum, Specialist skills, Social cohesion/solidarity, Particularistic standards, Universalistic standards, Ascribed status, Achieved status, Role allocation, Meritocracy, Social mobility (extension).

• Covers the following sociologists: Durkheim, Parsons, Davis and Moore.

• Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Functionalism – Structuralism – Consensus vs conflict theory – Value consensus – Organic analogy – Social order – Norms – Values – Culture – Socialisation – Primary vs secondary socialisation – Agencies and agents of socialisation – Social control – Curriculum – National curriculum.

• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT - print table and info sheet in A3

• ANSWERS INCLUDED for the main activities, exam questions and progress checks (model answers highlighted in red).

• INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

• Do Now retrieval starter; explicit key term instruction with Think-Pair-Share memorisation

• a fully scaffolded activity table with sentence starters and structured explanation stems

• dual coding image-based application rounds (whole-class finger-response AFL); DEEPER THINKING analysis prompts on every function

• live marking prompts (Check, Correct and/or Develop your answers)

• PEE writing structure with success criteria for 4 makers

• spiral curriculum links to prior learning.

• Includes 12-mark Discuss question, with an AGREE/DISAGREE planning grid and command word support.

L2 AQA GCSE Sociology Education: The role of education – Marxist views (Bowles and Gintis and Willis)

• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap the Marxist view of society, explain the role of education from Bowles and Gintis' perspective, and analyse and evaluate the Marxist perspective of education.

• Covers the following key terms: Correspondence principle, Alienation

• Covers the following sociologists: Bowles and Gintis, Willis and their key studies

• Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Marxism – Capitalism – Hidden curriculum – Formal curriculum – Meritocracy – Proletariat – Bourgeoisie – Ownership – Interests – Means of production – Agency of socialisation and social control – Agents of socialisation and social control – Culture – Norms – Values – Secondary socialisation – Value consensus – Counter-culture – Laddish subculture – Pupil subculture

• Includes a DO NOW retrieval starter recapping the Marxist view of society, with answers

• Includes a double-sided A3 worksheet on Bowles and Gintis and Willis with detailed scaffolding

• Includes a fill-in-the-gap consolidation activity with a word bank

• Includes a PROGRESS CHECK 3 marker with command word guidance, success criteria and a mark scheme

• Includes DEEPER THINKING tasks throughout

• INCLUDES THINK–PAIR–SHARE comparing functionalist and feminist views of the correspondence principle

• ANSWERS INCLUDED for the main activities via CHECK, CORRECT AND/OR DEVELOP YOUR ANSWERS slides

• Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

L3 AQA GCSE Sociology Education: The role of education – Feminist views

• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap the feminist view of society, explain the feminist view of the role of education using examples of processes within the education system, and evaluate it by comparing and contrasting it with functionalist and Marxist views.

• Covers how the hidden curriculum transmits patriarchal values, gendered subject image and gendered subject choice, gendered language and labelling, and the gender division of labour in schools.

• Covers the following key terms: Role (or function) of education, Patriarchy, Hidden curriculum vs Formal curriculum, Gender roles, Gender socialisation, Canalisation, Gender inequality, Gendered subject image, Labelling, Determinism, Meritocracy, Correspondence principle, Role allocation, Specialist skills, Value consensus, Social cohesion

• Covers the following sociologists: Heaton and Lawson (and makes reference to the following sociologists students might know Durkheim, Parsons, Bowles and Gintis, Willis)

• Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Internal factors – Processes – Gender differences in subject choice – Sex – Gender – Feminism – Agents and agencies of socialisation – Agents and agencies of social control – Social structures – Systems – Culture – Norms – Values – Social processes – Socialisation – Positive sanctions vs Negative sanctions – Primary socialisation – Secondary socialisation – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Conflict theories vs Consensus theories

• Includes a video as an activity

• Includes a Think–Pair–Share evaluation activity and a whole-class progress check

• Includes deeper thinking stretch and challenge tasks throughout, plus a mind-map comparing feminist, functionalist and Marxist views with a similarities and differences breakdown for high-attaining students

• Comparison mind-map task with answers of functionalist, Marxist and feminist views, with completed answer slides and similarities/differences

• PRINT WORKSHEETS IN A3 DOUBLE-SIDED

• INCLUDES 12 MARKER with detailed success criteria and sentence starters

• ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

• Fully editable PowerPoint, ready to teach with no preparation required. Colour-coded throughout: key terms in pink, key sociologists in purple, examples in orange italics and answers in red italics.