AQA A-LEVEL Sociology Education: Topic 3 - Ethnic differences - LESSONS, REVISION & KEY SHEETS
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:
**1. LESSONS:**
L1 - Cultural deprivation
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that introduces students to ethnic differences in achievement and explores how different aspects of cultural deprivation (language, attitudes and values, and parental structure) might cause ethnic differences in achievement. To do this, the lesson explores the following key terms: ethnic group, ethnic differences in achievement, cultural deprivation, compensatory education and makes reference to other key terms students should have previously learnt (restricted code, working-class subculture, meritocracy, internal vs external factors, cultural vs material factors)
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITY CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
*STUDENT FRIENDLY MARK-SCHEME FOR 4 MARKER INCLUDED
L2 - Material deprivation and racism in wider society
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson on how a. material deprivation and b. racism in wider society might cause ethnic differences in achievement. Makes reference to key terms material vs cultural factors, external vs internal factors, the meaning/ patterns of ethnic differences in achievement.
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
INCLUDES ORACY ACTIVITY
L3 - Negative labelling and teacher racism
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that explores the following so students are able to understand and explain how negative labelling and teacher racism might cause ethnic differences in achievement:
Ideal pupil identity , Pathologised pupil identity, Demonised pupil identity, Colour-blind teachers, Liberal chauvinist teachers, Overt racist teachers, Rebels subcultures, Conformist subcultures, Retreatist subcultures, Innovators subcultures
Differentiates between Gillborn and Youdell (or Bourne or Olser), Sewell, Mirza’s view of how teachers might be racist and how this might affect achievement for different groups.
Lesson makes links to the following terms that students should have covered before completing this lesson: Labelling, Self-fulfilling prophecy, Streaming, Streams A-C economy, Educational triage, Interactionism vs Structuralism, Stereotype, Ethnicity Cultural deprivation Collectivism vs individualism.
**NOTE – Students will need to have basic to reasonable knowledge of labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy. **
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
L4 - Institutional racism
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that explores the following so students are able to understand institutional racism and explain how it might cause ethnic differences in achievement: Institutional racism, Marketisation (extension), The New IQism, Ethnocentric, Ethnocentric curriculum, Model minorities, The foundation stage profile (FSP), Aim Higher initiatives/ programmes
Covers the ideas of Troyna and Williams Gillborn, David, Ball, Sewell (as a criticism)
Covers criticisms of Gillborn’s arguments
Includes answers for MOST activities - NOTE - NO ANSWERS FOR ‘DO NOW’ but can be done on the board with students.
Makes some links to the following key terms students should know:
Internal vs External factors, Cultural vs Material factors, Social processes, Labelling, Streaming, Self-fulfilling prophecy
**NOTE:**
**** RESOURCES FOR LESSONS CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
****USE and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook**
**2. REVISION LESSON **
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that:
uses scaffolding to guide students in making a mind-map of the topic as a revision material
-recaps the success criteria for 10 markers with item
-provides a model paragraph for a 10 marker item on this topic
-uses scaffolding to help students write their own 10 mark (item) paragraphs or full answers.
-includes 4 different 10 markers (with item). for this topic
**3. KEY TERM SHEETS**
Alphabetical key term sheet for AQA A-level Sociology Education Topic 3 ethnic differences in achievement that requires students to fill out the definitions themselves.
*** Includes scaffolding, e.g. some sentence starters (to model to students how to incorporate key sociologists into their definitions) and prompts to help students remember how key term links to the topic. **
*** Includes a section with key terms that students should know from previous learning(links to key terms covered in class differences in achievement, e.g. labelling, pupil identities, material deprivation, speech codes etc) that link to this topic. **
DOES NOT INCLUDE IN TABLE key terms covered in Topic 1 & 2 Class diff key term sheet, e.g. labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy
Good form of revision for students and can be used as a revision resource to develop AO1 once filled out.
**BASED ON CONTENT textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
**4. KEY SOCIOLOGISTS SHEET **
Alphabetical list of sociologists who attempt to explain ethnic differences in achievement. SOME scaffolding with some sentence starters, prompts to help students with what some sociologists might says and put into external vs internal factors categories .
Requires students to write done what key sociologists from the topic ethnic differences in achievement (external and internal factors).
Good form of revision and revision resource for the students.
**BASED ON CONTENT in textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
