| Term/ Dates | Overview of topics/ skills/ content | Assessment and approximate Date | Links for Resources/ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1a: | Introduction to the AL Course | Practice Paper Past Questions 1-3 for Education and Society | Revision material and all classwork posted to Google Classroom |
| Paper 3: Education | Theories about the role of education: Functionalist, Marxist, New Right and Social Democratic | Learner Guide found here | |
| Education and social mobility | CIE AS & A Level Student Book (ISBN: 978-0-00-828762-7) | ||
| September- October | Influences on the curriculum | Past Papers available here | |
| Term 1b: | Education and inequality | Full Past Paper Assessment for Education - whole paper exam conditions | |
| Paper 3: Education Cont | Intelligence and educational attainment | ||
| October- December | Social class and educational attainment | ||
| Ethnicity and educational attainment | |||
| Gender and educational attainment | |||
| Term 2a: | Traditional media and the new media | Past Paper essay question | |
| Paper 4: Media | Theories of the media and influences on media content | (choose between 2 questions. 35 marks) | |
| The impact of the new media | |||
| January-February | Media representations of class, gender, ethnicity, and age groups | ||
| Different models of media effects | |||
| The impact of the media on behaviour | |||
| Term 2b: | Religion and society | Past Paper essay question | |
| Paper 4: Religion | Religion and social order | (choose between 2 questions. 35 marks) | |
| Religion as a source of social change | |||
| February - March | The secularisation debate | ||
| Gender, feminism and religion | |||
| Religion and post-modernity |
