Reference no: EM131043439
Part A:
Read the article "Cracking the Code: How Schools can Improved Social Mobility"
You are required to summarise and respond to the article.
- Summary will include:
o The main points, claims and conclusions
o The basis on which the article makes its claims (This can be theory, original research, published literature on the issue or a social / political orientation).
- Responses include your answers to these TWO questions:
o What was the most significant thing you learned from this article?
o What was the most puzzling, problematic, controversial, unclear or troubling thing you found in this article.
Part B:
Write an essay on the topic below:
"The Academic Underachiever in Schools"
- Discuss the characteristics of the academic underachiever
- Do you agree with streaming according to academic ability?
- Steps taken to help academic underachievers
o Use your own words and do not be afraid to state your opinion. Remember you should "critically evaluate" which means there are two sides to an argument.
o Do not cut and paste or plagiarise from the learning materials or the web.
Part C:
Using yourself as a subject, write an essay explaining how your attitudes, beliefs, values, thinking and behaviour has been socialised by the schools you attended.
- This is an essay that requires you to recall and reflect on your experiences in school (both primary & secondary).
- Remember, both the formal curriculum and the hidden curriculum have played an important role in socialising you.
- To support your argument, provide examples on how school has socialised you [e.g. standing up when the national anthem is played, to respect the opinion of others]. You decideon the number of examples!
- There is no fixed format and you decide on the sub-headings.
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