BUNDLE - AQA GCSE Sociology Education Unit

Topic 1 - Different types of education and schools

L1 Different types of education and schools:

Detailed student led lesson on the different stages of education, the different types of schools and the state vs independent divide in education (including arguments for and against private schools). Lesson has been planned to stretch and challenge the most able and includes scaffolding to support all pupils with meeting the lesson objectives.

This lesson also goes through the different types of schools for different ages: Nursery, Primary, Secondary, Sixth form and Higher education.

PLEASE NOTE - Progress check activity requires students to think about the types of schools that apply to their school so you will need to edit it to make it relevant.

covers the following key terms: Nursery school and classes, Primary Schools, Secondary schools, Sixth form, Higher education, State schools, Academies, Free schools, Special schools, Faith schools, Grammar schools, Independent/ private schools, Specialist schools, National curriculum, Public schools (extension), Local Education Authorities (LEAs) (extension), Admission policy (extension), Ofsted (extension)

Answers included for main activities (excluding the plenary)

Includes a 3 marker with a success criteria and student-friendly mark-scheme.

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.

L2 State vs independent education and schools:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand independent schools vs state schools.

Cover the following key terms: Independent schools, Private schools, National curriculum, State-funded school

Covers the following sociologists: The Sutton trust (2011)

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Key terms you SHOULD know that link: State schools, Independent/ private schools, national curriculum, Public school (extension), Admission policy (extension), Marxism.

L3 Alternative forms of education and schooling:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand alternative forms of traditional education (e.g. describe the alternative forms of educational provision, explain how the different forms of educational provision differ to traditional forms of education, analyse and evaluate the alternative forms of educational provision.

Covers the following key terms: Home education/ home-schooling, Democratic education/ de-schooling, Vocational education and training

Key sociologists mentioned that students should already be aware of: Illich (extension)

Answers to all main activities included

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.

Topic 2 - Class differences in educational achievement

L4 Material deprivation:

Covers the following key terms: Class differences in educational achievement, Educational achievement, External factors (home factors), Internal factors (school factors), Social class

Covers the following sociologists: Halsey, Heath, Ridge (1980)

Key term and definition sheet for the lesson included

ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDES

Teaching to all activity included

Makes references to key terms students should know- Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

L5 Cultural deprivation:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand

Cover the following key terms:

Material factors

Cultural factors

Cultural deprivation

Speech code

The elaborate code

The restricted code

Subculture

Immediate gratification

Deferred gratification

Collectivism

Individualism

Fatalism

Present-time orientation

Future orientated

Key terms you should already know that link:

Class differences in achievement

Educational achievement

External achievement

External factors

Internal Factors

ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

Teaching to all technique included.

L6 Cultural capital:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the three types of identified by Bourdieu. Students will also be able to explain the role of cultural capital in causing class differences in achievement.

Two plenaries to choose from

Exam style question

Student friendly mark scheme

Cover the following key terms: Cultural capital

Educational capital

Economical capital

Selection by mortgage (extension)

Covers the following sociologists:Bourdieu, Sugarman, Leech and Campos (extension), KEDDIE, BLACKSTONE AND MORTIMORE

Key terms you should know: Culture, Norms Values, Agency and agents of socialisation, Primary socialisation, Meritocracy

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

Some answers to activity are included

key term sheet for the lesson attached.

L7 Labelling:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand class differences in achievement.

Covers the following key terms: Labelling, Self-fulfilling prophecy/Pygmalion effect, the ‘Halo effect’

Covers the following sociologists: Becker, Rosenthal and Jacobson

Includes key term and definition sheet needed for the lesson.

Includes a discussion activity to promote oracy and engagement

includes a 3 marker and detailed scaffolding to help students answer it. Also includes a student-friendly marker for self or peer assessment.

ANSWERS FOR MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.

L8 Banding (Setting & Streaming):

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand class differences in achievement (setting and streaming)

Covers the following key terms: Banding, Setting, Streaming, Mixed-ability class

Covers the following sociologists: Ball

Includes a starter activity that recaps content on class difference sin educational achievement that students should have covered so far and answers to these.

ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Includes a ‘teaching to all’ activity

Includes key term and definition sheet for the lesson

Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

L9 Pupil subcultures:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how setting might cause pupils to form pupil subcultures. To explain how pupil subcultures might explain class differences in achievement . Students will also be able to analyse and evaluate pupil subculture as an explanation for class differences in achievement

Cover the following key terms: pro-school subcultures, anti-school subcultures/counter-cultures

Covers the following sociologists: Willis

ANSWERS TO SOME MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .

Key terms students should know: Banding, setting, pupil subculture, Norms, Values

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

Topic 3 - Ethnic differences in educational achievement

L10 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Cultural factors:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the patterns of ethnic differences in educational achievement and the role of cultural factors in causing ethnic differences in achievement. Lastly, to analyse and evaluate the role of different cultural factors in causing ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following sociologists: Lupton, Sewell, Clarke, Bhatti, Sugarman, Bernstein

Covers the following key terms: Ethnic differences in educational achievement, ethnicity

Answers to all main activities included

Key terms students should know Race, Ethnic groups

Introduces students to the patterns of ethnic differences in educational achievement.

Main activity is planned as a carousel activity that allows students to collect information on the cultural factors that might affect different ethnic groups and capture this on a sheet that I printed in A3.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END.

L11 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Material factors:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the relationship between poverty and ethnicities.

To understand the role of material deprivation in causing ethnic differences in achievement. Lastly, to analyse and evaluate the role of material deprivation in causing ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: Racism, Racial discrimination

Key terms students should know: Ethnic differences in achievement, External factors vs Internal factors, Cultural vs Material factors, Cultural deprivation, Culture, Norms, Values, Speech codes, Restricted code vs Elaborate code, Social inequality, Primary socialisation

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

Answers to MAIN activity included

Includes a discussion activity with prompts and sentence starts to promote oracy.

Includes a 4 marker with detailed scaffolding to help students with answering it.

L12 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Labelling & Banding:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how labelling, setting and streaming might affect achievement. Students will be able to explain how labelling, setting and streaming might cause ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: stereotypes

Covers the following sociologists: Gillborn and Mirza, Wright, Mirza, Youdell and Interactionist

Key terms you should know: Ethnic differences in achievements - External factors vs Internal factors - Labelling/ teacher expectation - Cultural vs Material factors - Self-fulfilling prophecy – Setting - Streaming - Interactionism vs Structuralism - Social inequality- Processes - Ethnic group – Educational achievement

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

Lesson also covers banding (setting and streaming) as a form of labelling.

Teaching to all activity included as a progress check activity

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Visual icons included

Starter activity involves students recapping previous knowledge that students should know about ethnic differences in educational achievement, labelling (learnt during class differences in educational achievement), banding (setting and streaming) and interactionism.

L13 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Institutional racism:

Includes a teaching to all activity

ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Includes two videos as activities

Cover the difference between individual and institutional racism and how labelling links to both.

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how institutional racism might cause ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: Institutional racism, Ethnocentric curriculum, Admissions policy, Exclusion policy and Racism. Formal curriculum (extension) and Hidden curriculum (extension)

Covers the following sociologists: David and Ball

key terms you should know: Ethnic differences in achievement - External factors vs Internal factors – Educational achievement – Ethnicity - Labelling/Teacher expectation - Cultural vs Material factors - Self-fulfilling prophecy – Banding - Setting - Streaming - Interactionism vs Structuralism - Social inequality - Processes - Ethnic group - national curriculum

Resources can be found at the end of PPT.

Topic 4 - Gender differences in education (achievement & subject choice)

L14 Why might girls' educational achievement improved? - Home/ external factors:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand patterns in gender differences in educational achievement.

Cover the following key terms: Gender differences in educational achievement, Girls Into Science (GIST), Girls and Technology and Education (GATE)

Covers the following sociologists: Sharpe, Fuller, Kelly

Key terms you should know: Educational achievement, Feminism, Sex discrimination (Sexism), National curriculum

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

key term for the lesson attached

ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Exam style 4 marker (with no item) included with detailed scaffolding to help students answer it.

L15 Why are boys underachieving (internal & external factors)?:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand gender differences in educational achievement.Students will be able to identify and explain the factors that have led to the relative underachieve of boys.

Cover the following key terms: Bedroom culture, Then feminisation of education, Laddish subcultures, Manufacturing industry/ manual jobs (extension).

Covers the following sociologists: Sewell, Willis, Francis

Key terms you should know: Differences in educational achievement, Sex vs gender, Gender roles, Femininity, Masculinity, Primary socialisation, Canalisation, Anti-school vs pro-school subcultures, Pupil subcultures Secondary socialisation, Agency and agents of socialisation and social control, Labelling, Self-fulfilling prophecy

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

key term for the lesson attached

SOME ANSWERS INCLUDED

Includes a teaching to all progress check activity

Video clip.

L16 Gender differences in subject choice:

Detailed information sheet for main task (carousel activity)

Detailed key term and definition sheet for the lesson included

4 marker (no item) with detailed scaffolding to help students answer it.

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand factors that might influence subject choices for females and males.

Cover the following key terms: Gendered subject choice, Gender differences in subject choice, peer pressure, peer group, gender identify and image, gendered career opportunities.

Covers the following sociologists: Elwood, Kelley, Colley, Dfe, Paetcher, Dewar, Institute of Physics

Key terms you should know: Girls and Technology and Education(GATE), Girls into Science (GIST)

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

Answers to all questions.

Topic 5 - The role of education

L17 Functionalists’ role of education
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the roles or functions of the education system for a functionalist perspective. Students will be able to analyse and evaluate functionalist views of the role of education.
Covers the following key terms: Meritocracy- Particularistic standards Universalistic standards- Ascribed status - Achieved status - Formal curriculum - Hidden curriculum - Social cohesion/ solidarity- Social mobility-
Role allocation - Structuralism- Consensus theory/ approach- Value consensus- Social institutions- Organic analogy- Social order- Social cohesion
Covers the following sociologists: Durkheim, Parsons Davis and Moore
Key terms you should know that link: Functionalism - Structuralism - Consensus theory - Secondary socialisation - National curriculum - Social inequality
Resources can be found at the end of PPT
Includes a teaching to all activity
4 marker (with no item) included with detailed scaffolding for answering it PLUS a detailed student friendly mark-scheme for it.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Starter is a recap to functionalist views of society.
Key term and definition sheet for the lesson included.

L18 Marxists’ role of education
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students explain the role of education from Marxists Bowles and Gintis’ perspective and be able to analyse and evaluate Bowles and Gintis’ Marxist perspective of education.
Cover the following key terms: correspondence principle
Covers the following sociologists: Bowles and Gintis, Willis
Key terms you should know: Marxism - Capitalism –Hidden curriculum – Formal curriculum - Meritocracy – Proletariat - Bourgeoisie - Ownership Interests – Capitalism - Means of production - Agency of socialisation and social control - Agents of socialisation and social control - Culture - Norms - Values - Hidden curriculum -Formal curriculum - Secondary socialisation Value consensus – counter-culture – laddish subculture – pupil subculture.
Resources can be found at the end of PPT
Starter gets students to recap Marxist views of society
ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Plenary is a game - students have to describe the key terms without using the words shown.

L19 Feminist role of education
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand Feminists’ role of education.
Covers the following key terms: Secondary socialisation, role allocation, meritocracy correspondence principles, specialist skills, universalistic standards, particularistic standards, ascribed status, achieved status, social cohesion, gender differences in subject.
Includes a ‘teaching to all’ activity
Starter activity enables students to recap the feminist view of society
ANSWERS TO MOST activities included
Includes an activity that allows students to compare and contrast functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of the role of education
Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

Topic 6 - Educational policy

L20 Educational policies before 1988:
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand Education reforms before 1988 (e.g. The main educational policies before 1988, the impact of educational policies before 1988, how to apply sociological perspectives to educational policies and evaluate them).

Cover the following key terms:
Education policy
Education reform
The tripartite system
Secondary modern
Comprehensive system
Secondary moderns
State-run schools
Eleven- plus exam
Compulsory [state] education
Selective schools

ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .

Key terms students should know:
Grammar vs comprehensive schools , Academies/ free schools,
State-run education/ schools, Working-class subculture, Culture Norms, values, setting Mixed-ability classes, Banding Local Education Authority (LEA), Independent/ private schools

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

L21 The marketisation of education:
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what impact might marketisation have had on British education system ( define marketisation, the impact of the 1988 Education Reform act on the British education system and the policies it brought about).

Includes ‘teaching to all’ pedagogical technique

Cover the following key terms:
Marketisation
Marketisation of education
Market forces (extension)
Privatisation (of education)

Covers the following reforms:
1988 Education Reform Act

Covers the following policies:
League tables
Ofsted reports
Academies
Free schools
Specialist schools
Open enrolment
Business sponsorship

ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .
Key terms students should know that link: Education reform/ policy Labelling, Streaming, Setting, Banding, Academies, Free-schools, Differences in achievement (class, gender, ethnicity), Internal vs External factors, Local Education Authority (LEA), Social processes
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

**L22 Educational policies that tackle educational inequality:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand to what extent might education reforms have tackled educational inequality (e.g the main education policies and reforms that have had an impact on the education system, using examples - how education policies or reforms have tackled inequality in education).

Covers educational policies that tackle class, gender and ethnic differences in educational achievement and gender differences in subject choice.
Covers the following policies: Marketisation policies and social inclusion

Key terms you SHOULD know that link:
Educational policies/ reforms, Marketisation, Open enrolment, Academies, Formula funding, League tables, Ofsted reports, Tripartite system, Class differences in educational achievement, Gender differences in educational achievement, Ethnic differences in educational achievement, Gender differences in subject choice, External vs internal factors, Cultural vs Material factors, Material deprivation, Cultural deprivation, Speech codes, Gender roles, socialisation, Gendered subject images, Gendered career opportunities

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

Revision lesson

L23 Education Revision lesson

Description allows students to recap the key terms and sociologists covered in the education unit and apply this to exam questions. Goes through the different types of 4 marker (excluding research methods 4 markers) students can be asked.

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES