Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ asses the view that gender differences in achievement are largely the result of changes in the education system. (20 marks) From the early 1990’s‚ girls have started to outperform boys at most levels of the education system‚ for example in GCSE related in subjects or A-levels. As Madsen Pirie of the New Right Adam Smith Institute states that the modular courses and continuous education today favour the systematic approach of girls‚ compared to the previous
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. According to Bynner and Joshi (1999) class differences have persisted since the late 1950’s. It can be seen that all studies carried out by various theorist came to the same conclusion that middle class pupils tend to do a lot better than working class in terms of educational achievement. Pupils from middle class backgrounds tend
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Using material from Item C and elsewhere‚ assess the view that the mass media represent young people as a problem group (18 marks) Different age groups tend to be represented in different ways in the mass media. Children (up to the age of about 14) are often presented as consumers of toys and games‚ are generally presented in a positive light. However‚ the youth (from around the age of 15 to the early 20’s) are often portrayed as a ‘problem group’ in society‚ and as a major source of anti-social
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organise genuinely communicative activities. This repertoire of activities enables them to have varied plans and achieve an activities balance." "The Practice of English Language Teaching" Harmer Which of the techniques outlined in this module‚ and elsewhere in the modules on skills and materials‚ would you use in order to achieve genuine communication in the classroom? This task should refer to other areas of the course. You should aim to write about 750 words. The ultimate aim of teaching English
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ asses the view that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare young people for their future work roles One way to select and prepare young people for their future work roles is by selecting and allocating pupils of education a role in society‚ as is mentioned in item A: “it also selects and allocates them to their future work roles” which means social inequality is legitimised because of the hierarchy of society – someone has to be
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The cultural deprivation theory argues that many working class and black children do not acquire the basic values‚ attitudes and skills needed for educational success through primary socialisation in the family. Many cultural deprivation theorists claim that working-class families inadequately socialise their children and therefore their children are ‘culturally deprived’. There are three main aspects to cultural deprivation‚ one of them being intellectual development. This refers to the
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Social class background has a powerful influence on a child’s chances of success in the educational system‚ a child is often labeled from the first year of school based on stereotyped assumptions about their class background‚ in the society there are significant social class‚ gender and ethnic inequalities of educational achievement
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Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Social class is typically known as social grouping or hierarchy based on differences in wealth‚ income or occupation. In the UK there are mainly two social classes; working class and middle class. 33% of students who are currently on free school meals achieve 5A*-C at GCSE‚ however 61% of students who are not on free school meals
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining ‘subcultural crime and deviance’ in society today (21 marks) Subcultural theories believe that people who commit a crime share different values to the rest of society. Subculture theories come from two different schools of sociology which are appreciative sociology and strain theory. Appreciative sociology came from the University of Chicago in the early 20th Century; Chicago sociologists were
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How does Sebold use representations of speech and other stylistic techniques to present Jack in the extract printed below‚ and in one other episode elsewhere in the novel? Sebold presents the character of Jack as having conflicting behaviour after Susie’s death. Initially after the death of his daughter‚ Jack is mentally strong and seems to be coping with Susie’s death in his own way‚ but we later realise Jack is not as strong as he seems on the surface‚ and is close to the breaking point himself
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