Category: Blog
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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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#2022challenge Day 3 – Gender and Education
Day 3’s questions looked at Gender and Education – focusing on both in-school and home factors, as well as gender identity. The questions are below: I sent out a few images to help students to answer the questions – now these are not exhaustive and there are many other reasons but I focus on providing […]
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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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#2022Challenge
For people who have been following me for a few years you may remember that back in 2019 I did the #40DayChallenge in the run up to the exams. For those who are new to my website, this involved me setting a ten mark question via twitter and instagram and then challenging people to complete […]
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Dear Society – #sociologymatters
‘Dear Society, We need to talk. Things have just been getting a bit crazy of late. It’s not you, it’s not me, these things just happen. I used to feel so connected to you, I really understood you. Recently, things have changed though. You’re acting so erratic. You’ve been hanging out with all the wrong […]