Global Culture: 3 Views

While there’s probably a general agreement that “globalised cultural forms” – from fast food to films to football – are increasingly coming into existence, students need to be aware there are debates over both the exact forms these globalised cultures take and the impacts they make. They need to consider this in terms of how […]

Middle Class Identities | 2 Cultural Identities

The second of two related “identity” PowerPoint Presentations, (the first looked at occupational identities) identifies four cultural factors – two that could be loosely called “positive” (social and cultural capital) and two that could loosely be called “negative” (disgusted subjects and not being working class) that contribute to the shaping of middle class identities. The […]

Middle Class Identities |1 Occupational Identities

The first of two related “identity” PowerPoint Presentations, this one identifies a number of occupational identities that contribute to the shaping of middle class identities: Professionals Managers Consultants Intellectuals Service Workers As ever, the list is indicative rather than prescriptive, designed mainly to provide a general starting-point for further investigation and discussion. In this respect […]

Types Of Cybercrime

Cybercrime, broadly defined as unlawful behaviour involving the use of computers – either as a tool for committing a crime (such as cyber stalking) or as the target of a crime (such as identity theft) – comes in a number of shapes and disguises and this “reasonably short” (i.e. quite long) PowerPoint Presentation can be […]

Getting Your Revision On: The Appliance of Science

Although revision is probably the last thing on anyone’s mind at the start of a course, the science suggests that taking a structured, long-term, “little and often”, approach is the way to go… While any revision is arguably better than no revision, I’d also suggest some forms of revision are more effective than others. And […]

The Rules of the Game

How “predicted grades” and the “personal statement” contribute to the relative failure of high-performing disadvantaged kids in the “game” of university entrance. While a-level sociology students do a lot of work on education and differential achievement, the narrative in relation to social class tends to focus on “middle class success”, “working class failure” and the […]

Tech4Teachers: Backchannel Chat

YoTeach is a free browser-based Chatroom – think of it as a combination of a Facebook Group – people with a shared interest  – and text messaging if you’re not over-familiar with an idea whose heyday was probably somewhere around the beginning of the century. Basically, it’s a private online space (or room in YoTeach […]