ATSS: Critical views of the family
May 13, 2017
The filing cabinet that just keeps on giving has revealed another of its little secrets in the form of an ATSS Teaching and Learning Support
The filing cabinet that just keeps on giving has revealed another of its little secrets in the form of an ATSS Teaching and Learning Support
Thanks to the very useful online file converter Zamzar I was able to convert one of the old ATSS support booklets from it’s original Microsoft
Those of you with long memories may recall the ATSS (Association for the Teaching of Social Science), an organisation that was eventually folded into the
A range of weekly podcasts focused on aspects of A-level and GCSE sociology teaching.
I found this document lurking on a hard drive and while I’ve absolutely no idea from where it originally came, the metadata says “2008” and
I’ve been trawling through some of the old ATSS material I seem to have collected and “stored” (oddly, enough, behind bookcases and stuffed towards the
This activity uses simple analogies (plus some optional optical illusions…) to introduce students to a variety of sociological perspectives. Whatever you may think about the
After a brief hiatus, we’re back to business with a fifth example of Jill Swale’s ATSS work, this one focusing on patterns of offending and
This simple activity, culled once more from the ATSS archive, has a dual purpose in terms of helping students: 1. Develop a critical and sociological
I’ve always thought Edward De Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats” (1985) is an idea that fits quite neatly with the demands placed on students in a-level
A third example of Jill Swale’s work, once more culled from the ATSS archive lurking in my expansive filing cabinet, is an essay-writing exercise constructed
A second example of Jill Swale’s work, lovingly-culled from the ATSS archive, is based around the requirement for students to “solve a mystery by selecting
If you’re not familiar with the work of Dr. Jill Swale the easiest way to describe it is that she brings a creative dimension to