WHAT. More?

In a recent post I outlined the WHAT technique, a “strong, yet simple, way to analyse and evaluate any research study” by encouraging students to break any study down into 4 key areas: What were the aims of the study? How was the study carried-out? Answers: what were the key findings of the research? Takeaways: […]

Sociology Summer Transition Work

If you’re looking around for some inspiration for “Transition Work” you can set your prospective students over the coming summer months, look no further. Or rather, start here and then I’ll suggest ways you can look further afield. It seems like every couple of years I get around to thinking about those long, hot, summer […]

Collections 5 | Flipbooks

The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post. Research Methods The first four to be given the Flipbook treatment are actual, physical, book chapters […]

Differential Achievement: The Raw and the Cooked

“Gap in GCSE results between private and state schools widens at highest level”New figures highlighting the results gap between different school types have sparked fresh concerns about education inequalities. The Independent: August 2024  This newspaper headline is fairly indicative of how exam results in England and Wales are generally reported – the raw (unadjusted) numbers […]

(Re)Discovering Sociology

If you don’t subscribe to the British Sociological Association’s “Discovering Sociology” newsletter you’re missing-out on the free “journal corner” offering of “curriculum friendly summaries of papers published in the BSA journal Sociology” (which presumably means cutting-out all the dull bits and just moving straight to exam-friendly stuff – I could be wrong). Although when they […]

The Real CSI

The Centre for Social Investigation – not to be confused with the long-running TV series – was established at Nuffield College in 2014 as an “interdisciplinary research programme” with the aim of addressing “contemporary social issues of public interest”. To which end, the upshot of all this collaborative enterprise and expertise is an archive of […]

Education: Control, Inequality and Innovation

1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and began a process of modernising conservatism, under both Conservative and Labour governments, that still, nearly 50 years later, exerts a vice-like grip on primary, secondary and, increasingly tertiary […]

Dynamic Learning: Spaced Repetition

Research has shown that when we learn new information we’ll have forgotten around 50% of it within a day and 75% of it after a week. This is called the forgetting curve and while it’s useful for getting rid of all the stuff we don’t need to remember, it can be a big problem if […]

Podcasts with Pictures: Learning Academy

Another in the “Podcasts with Pictures” series designed to bring to your attention video materials you or your students might find useful. In this instance we have a series of “video lessons” created by The Learning Academy. Each of the 14 lessons lasts between 10 and 15 minutes and consists of someone talking about a […]

GCSE Sociology Revision Booklets

From time-to-time I come across GCSE Sociology resources that I think are worth passing-on to teachers and students and these two documents are no exception. Because if they were I wouldn’t be linking to them. Obviously. The first is a Revision Pack created by C Pym of Whalley Range High School. It covers the 2022 […]

More Sociology Summer Transition Resources | 1

It’s been a couple of years since I last posted any Sociology Transition materials (work set for students to complete over the summer holiday to ease the transition between GCSE and A-level or Year 12 and Year 13) so I thought it might be useful to update the list with some more-recent materials culled from the labours of hard-working Sociology teachers.

Sociology Flipbooks

A range of Sociology Flipbooks covering Theory, Methods, Education, Deviance, Media and Revision.

Plus 3 bonus issues of Sociology Shortcuts Magazine.