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#2022Challenge Days 17-20
So… still playing catch up this week, which demonstrates the importance of having a) a clear schedule to revise and b) rest days planned to catch up when you need to. Anyway, the complete Families and Households section of the #2022challenge is up now. Videos will be a bit longer as I’m away from home…
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#2022Challenge Days 13 and 14
Apologies for not updating this sooner (if you noticed that is…) but here are Day 13’s responses to a couple of tricky questions. As always, I put out some material which you can find on the 2022 Challenge page. And like buses, here are Day 14 and Day 15’s responses as well. The fact that…
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#2022Challenge Day 12 Culture and Identity
Culture and Identity is today’s theme, focusing mainly on the impacts of globalisation and social class identity as well as the impacts of consumption on identity. Through the day I sent out some hints, which are in the gallery below. In answering the questions, I tried to use as much information as I could from…
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#2022Challenge Culture and Identity Day 11
After a nice relaxing weekend, it’s back to the grindstone with 2 – 10 mark questions on Culture and Identity. I have to admit, this is not a module I have taught very often, but it is quite a fascinating module to have read about and studied. As we focus largely on the non-Advanced Information…
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#2022Challenge Day 10 Theory and Methods
Then end of week 2 of the #2022 Challenge is upon us as I put up the final response to this week’s challenges. Today we looked at two questions that differed in difficulty. First, ethical considerations of experiments should be quite straightforward, identifying an ethical issue, explaining why it was an issue and using an…
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#2022Challenge Day 9
Day 9 of the challenge is complete and just one more day to go to the weekend. After this week, we’ll nearly be down to double figures of questions to complete. At present, there are still 102 to go! Throughout the day I have been posting some little hints on how to answer todays questions.…
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#2022Challenge Day 8 – Theory and Methods
Nearly didn’t manage to get today’s challenge done, but here it is. Sometimes it is tough to maintain daily revision, particularly when faced with other demands, such as work, family and friends. Sometimes unforeseen events may throw you off track somewhat, but it’s worth realising that if that does happen then it’s important to get…
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#2022Challenge Day 7 Theory and Methods
Today’s questions were again focused on theory and methods – this time looking at practical limitations of observations and reasons sociology cannot be value free. While the former question is relatively straightforward, students need to be careful to mention practical limitations rather that ethical or theoretical ones. A handy way to revise this is through…
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#2022 Challenge Day 6 Theory and Methods
Bit of a tougher question today – looking at Theory and Methods. The first question on primary research methods… I combined the ‘choice of topic and methods’ with the trend that seems to have occurred for asking about strengths/limitations for either primary or secondary methods that AQA appear to have had over recent papers. It’s…
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#2022Challenge Day 5 Education
The end of the first week and 15 out of 125 questions answered. I’ve had some really nice feedback from people doing the challenge, so I hope others are finding it useful. Ordinarily there would not be a challenge set on the weekends, but as I miscalculated the number of days in the first week…
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#2022Challenge Day 4 Ethnicity and Education
So today’s responses are up a little later than usual, but still completed. Looking at ethnic differences in education is quite a tough area of the specification because many students fall into the trap of using generic explanations rather than looking at the diversity of experiences based upon pupils’ ethnic backgrounds. As with class there…
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Day 2 #2022challenge Social Class and Education
Answers to Day 2 of the #2022challenge
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#2022 Challenge Day 1
Today marks the first day of the challenge and I set three questions this morning for students to answer (as above). The first question asked students to outline 2 ways in which schools promote meritocracy. A commonly asked question – in fact in the 2021 November Exam, the 30 mark essay question was on meritocracy…
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#40 Day Challenge Days 31-34
Due to a few issues out of my control (internet connection issues – thank you Sky!) been unable to upload responses/questions for 4) day challenge for the last few days. There are only 4 days of revision left until the first paper and I intend to make sure that there are 40 model answers there…
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#40DayChallenge Day 16 – Practical limitations of Self Completition Questionnaires
Today’s 40 Day challenge is on research methods. Given that 2 of the 8 ten mark questions across the 3 papers are on either Theory or Methods this is the eighth theory methods question I have asked. These questions are much harder to predict and so for revision I would suggest as a minimum you…
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#2022Challenge Day 16 Families and Households
Still playing catch-up somewhat, but onto the right day at least. Today’s #2022Challenge looked at changes to the family structure and how they influence children’s experiences and a 10 mark item question on the decline of marriage. I have to admit to deliberately picking two more difficult hooks in that question – individualism and secularisation…
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#2022Challenge Day 15…Culture and Identity
Still playing catch up after a few days not on task, but today is the final day in the Culture and Identity week of the challenge – which is sort of bittersweet. The topic areas for culture and identity are really interesting and very relevant to contemporary society…but finding adequate resources for students to learn…
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