Why is Gaz in Court for Mugging?
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 and ordering relevant material through group discussion”. In terms of game mechanics, this is a relatively simple sift-sort-match exercise: students work in small groups to link case study material to […]
Global Crime Lesson Resource
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 sociology teaching and learning through the application of critical thinking. This fusion has, over the years, produced some very interesting and innovative ways to teach a-level sociology, particularly the sociology […]
ATSS: Critical views of the family
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 Pack on Critical Approaches to the Family (stuff like Radical Psychiatry, Marxism and Feminism). This pack takes the same format as previous packs on globalisation, deviance and research methods: general […]
Testing Times
Testing Times is a relatively-simple board game, adapted from an original idea by Sally Stewart, designed to help students revise. The game is played in small classroom groups in the presence of a teacher because teachers will need to adjudicate student answers in order to sort the right from the wrong. Probably. Although the original […]
Clarke and Layder: Let’s Get Real
Continuing to clear-out the filing cabinet that is fast-assuming legendary status in both my life and the sociological world (pretty much the same thing, actually) I came across a copy of an article by Clarke and Layder originally published in the November 1994 issue of Sociology Review called “Let’s Get Real: The Realist Approach in […]
Participant Observation: “Old Pat”
While clearing out an old fling cabinet (not something I normally do but every once in a while I find it therapeutic to interrupt my International Jet-setting Lifestyle to do the kinds of things ordinary people do. I find it keeps me grounded) I came across a cutting I’d saved about Pat Moore, an American […]
Psychology: More Hard-to-Find Classics
4 more “Hard to Find” classic studies expertly dissected by Dr Julia Russell. As with the previous post, each classic study is examined in terms of 5 areas – Aims, Procedure, Findings, Conclusion and Comments – and also includes questions, activities and resources related to the study. Carmichael, Hogan and Walter (1932) An experimental study […]
Creative Connections: Honeycomb Hexagons
The basic idea underpinning this simple activity is to encourage students to build-up a set of Key Revision Concepts with a visual dimension that should help them understand how and why these concepts can be connected. This is not only useful for revision – both the more-general “end of course” type and the more-specific “end […]
Psychology: Hard-to-Find Classics
For a number of years Dr Julia Russell wrote a Psychology Column for a film distribution company called Uniview and when this company decided to call it a day all the resources she’d created disappeared from the web with nary a sound to indicate they’d ever been there. However, with a display of foresight that, […]
NotAFactsheet: Miscellaneous Methods
Another small batch of NotAFactsheets covering a miscellaneous melange of methods-related stuff – some essential, some less so (but probably nice to know, just in case you want to impress the examiner with your wide-ranging and perceptive grasp of all things methodological. Or maybe not). M9. Quantitative and Qualitative Data M10. Strong and Weak Feminist […]