ATSS: Critical views of the family

The filing cabinet that just keeps on giving has revealed another of its little secrets in the form of an ATSS Teaching and Learning Support

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More ATSS Teacher Support Material

Thanks to the very useful online file converter Zamzar I was able to convert one of the old ATSS support booklets from it’s original Microsoft

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ATSS Teacher Support Materials

Those of you with long memories may recall the ATSS (Association for the Teaching of Social Science), an organisation that was eventually folded into the

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The Sociology Staffroom: Podcasts

A range of weekly podcasts focused on aspects of A-level and GCSE sociology teaching.

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Sociological Research Articles

I found this document lurking on a hard drive and while I’ve absolutely no idea from where it originally came, the metadata says “2008” and

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Revising Perspectives

I’ve been trawling through some of the old ATSS material I seem to have collected and “stored” (oddly, enough, behind bookcases and stuffed towards the

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“Society Is Like”: Simple Sociological Analogies

This activity uses simple analogies (plus some optional optical illusions…) to introduce students to a variety of sociological perspectives. Whatever you may think about the

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Patterns of Crime and the Social Characteristics of Offenders: Gender and Ethnicity

After a brief hiatus, we’re back to business with a fifth example of Jill Swale’s ATSS work, this one focusing on patterns of offending and

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Sociology and Issues in the News

This simple activity, culled once more from the ATSS archive, has a dual purpose in terms of helping students: 1.     Develop a critical and sociological

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Using “Thinking Hats” to Structure Discussions

I’ve always thought Edward De Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats” (1985) is an idea that fits quite neatly with the demands placed on students in a-level

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