SO5012 - Growing Up: Youth and Education

You will be taught through a weekly 1 hour lecture and 2 hour workshop/seminar discussion. The latter includes a variety of activities such as posters, debates and short presentations.

Assessment support will be offered in seminars, this might include dedicated planning and writing sessions, draft feedback and other activities to support the assignment completion. You are also able to meet with tutors for individual tutorials to help with assessment planning throughout the module. The weekly seminar activities are designed to support learning and assessment and so will enable the student to build their final assessment during the seminars.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding
1. Understand the different paradigms in the sociology of education and how these can be used to examine the functions of education systems.

2. Demonstrate how a historical and comparative approach is essential for the sociological analysis of education systems.

3. To critically assess the theoretical traditions in the sociology of education and how these can aid an understanding of how education systems influence the structuring of social identities and social divisions.

Intellectual / Professional skills and abilities
4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the ways in which sociological theory can be be used to explore educational systems and the role of learning in social identities.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA)

5. To recognise how education and learning are contested features of societies and be sensitive to the different ways these processes are constructed and riven by political and ideological disputes.

Critical biographical essay (2500 words)
MLO – 1, 4, 5,
Feedback will be provided on drafts in seminars and final feedback via turnitin

Education portfolio, including – 1. description of identified issue (1000) 2. intervention plan/plan for change (might include a module description, reading lists, changes to a classroom space etc.) (word count variable) and 3. theoretical/pedagogical rational/justification (1500)

MLO – 2, 3, 5
Feedback will be provided on drafts in seminars and final feedback via turnitin

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You will be introduced to key issues and debates in the sociology of education such as the emergence of education systems and how recent reforms have impacted on patterns of attainment. We examine explore some traditional questions such as the role of class, race and gender in schools as well as taking a biographical approach to the analysis of learning across the life course. We investigate the way that education can shape identities and how learning is implicated in wider patterns of social injustice.