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Contents Rather than organise files in any
overarching educational metanarrative (!), I have listed them
below in alphabetical order. Sometimes I have included internal or
external links, but I hope you will seize the chance to impose your own
sequences and your own orders -- see Click here for 'reading guides' (more than 100) to
various key texts -- part of my book on Social Theory Click
here
for more reviews and commentaries associated with my book on Leisure
Studies try revision |
| A - reading guide to his famous essay on ISAs | |
| Assessment | A -- a menu page leading to a collection of files |
| Approaches to James Bond movies | A -- three main approaches outlined (including Eco) |
| Avant-garde cinema | B -- a short course at level 3 |
| bake a cake the ed tech way | ? -- classic ed tech layout-- of an actual recipe |
| Bernstein on language | A -- early work on language, class and underachievement (graphics) |
| body language | A -- a preliminary rant and unfair mickey-take |
| Bourdieu on the sociology of 'taste' | A - short handout on the basics, then applied to film |
| Bowles & Gintis on schooling in the USA | A - a critical discussion of this famous piece on 'reproduction' |
| Bowles
and Gintis -- latest |
A -- the famous study upgraded
with reference to 2002 US data |
| Children and the media | B -- an undergrad course, spanning ed.studies and media studies |
| Children and the media -- notes | A -- lengthy-ish notes for the course (now as separate files) |
| Cities and their pleasures | A -- handout on the background to 'theming' etc |
| Clarke and Critcher |
A -- reading
guide to the main work in Leisure Studies |
| Commercial & 'experimental' cinema | A - introduction to connections between these two |
| Crime and deviancy | A -- large collection of files and reading guides -- subculture theories, labelling theory, social disorganisation, marxist approaches |
| Cultural Studies-- handbook | B - an undergrad course at level 3 |
| Cultural Studies-- a glossary | A - a short glossary to accompany the above |
| Cultural Studies -- some notes | A - brief discussions of central topics on the course |
| Cultural Studies in Educational Context | C - discusses effects of university organisation on radical courses |
| Deep and surface learning | A -- some brief, basic (and slightly unusual) criticisms |
| Disney theme parks | C - longish theoretical summary and commentary pro and con |
| Disney visitors |
C - some empirical research on
Disney visitors and their pleasures ( with D Moore) |
| distance education & social inequality | C - part 1. Discusses UK Open University and 'open-ness' |
| distance ed and course design | C - part 2 of above, with techniques of course design |
| educational achievement and teacher expectations | A -- 'new sociology of education', labelling theory and teacher expectations as a factor in underachievement |
| ed tech & new tech | C - possible implications of the Web as teaching device |
| education and underachievement | A - critical review of 3 early British studies of 'class' (Fraser, Douglas, Plowden) (graphics) |
| education policy and sociological models | A -- an account of debates about moving towards a meritocratic education system in the UK ( tripartite to comprehensive) |
| Educational history | A-- a sequence ranging from early 1800s (monitorialism), through to deschooling and 'the end of the university'. Linked to works of Bentham with crits by Marx and Foucault |
| ed tech and 'critical theory' | C - paper for the BSA conference -- illustrates both |
| 'escape' in leisure studies | A -- account based on the work of C Rojek |
| e-xhibition of paintings | DEFINITE 'MUST SEE' ! |
| on face-to-face teaching | A - critical reflections from my 'learning log' |
| Freud and film theory | A - basic intro, metapsychology and work on dreams applied to films |
| gender and education | A -- overview of gender factors in underachievement |
| Godard for beginners | A - basics on 'style' and politics, and a few films reviewed |
| Gramsci -- basics applied to education | C - a draft book chapter on the ambiguous legacy of the Great Man |
| guests' page | Must see -- mixture of other people's offerings, including student essays |
| Hegel (on Reason, the dialectic etc) | A -- quick guide to Taylor's account (mainly for sociologists) |
| Heritage Industry-- a discussion | A -- 3 handouts joined together, on the pros and cons |
| Leisure and Enterprise | B -- an undergrad course at level 3 |
| Leisure policy and the State | A -- a menu page leading to files on semi-deviant leisure |
| Maccanell on
tourism |
A -- a
summary of the famous first book on tourism and 'authenticity' |
| Marx on commodity fetishism | A -- quick intro to the main points |
| Marx on surplus value | A - very basic and quick (530 words!!) |
| Marx and Weber on stratification | A -- an answer to an emailed question |
| NEW!! Marxist controversies: politics |
A -- some old favourites
summarised -- Miliband vs Poulantzas on the capitalist state; Laclau
& Mouffe versus Geras and Townshend on 'post-Marxism' |
| McDonaldization | A - handout on the basics,Weber background, then applied to h.e |
| moral relativism? | C - case studies too, including mourning of Diana episode |
| music videos | A - basic debates, marxist v pomo analyses |
| Paper
World |
A - essays and asides on the
wild'n'wacky world of modern educational management |
| pleasures in Bond movies | A - brief intro to theories (eg Freud) then examples |
| postfordism and since | A - discussion with examples, mostly from 'New Times' group |
| postmodernism -- basics | A - crits of 'foundationalism' as main example. Written as a dialogue |
| quantitative
methods |
A -- collects together some good
examples of quants in use |
| NEW!!qualitative methods |
A -- collects together some good examples of quals. in use |
| questions and answers | A -- emailed questions and my replies-- constantly updated |
| 'race' and sociological theory | A - early piece, reviews classics in UK context |
| realism in cinema | A - reviews classic debates (MacCabe,Williams etc) |
| NEW!! Research methods |
B -- a course utilising online
resources (draft) |
| shopping: profits and pleasures | A -- summary of some classic CultStuds pieces |
| NEW!! social
class in the UK |
A -- some recent data on social
class inequalities and basic arguments, including for sports policy |
| social mobility studies (British and classic) | A -- summarises and illustrates 'Oxford Studies' NB tables are rendered as (quite large) graphics which may take several minutes to download |
| social mobility studies
(British and more recent) |
A --
summarises the great debate between Saunders and his critics about
whether the data show that Britain is now a meritocracy |
| social
theory/.sociology |
A -- some notes on some classic
and central sociology texts. More than 100 sets. |
| sociology
of leisure |
A -- some brief reviews of
recent journal articles (more than 70 at present) in this
fascinating field |
| sociology of religion | A -- basics on 'founding parents', bits on secularisation etc |
| television and violence | A -- a famous early empirical study (by W Belson) reviewed |
| video games and violence | A -- a famous (old but good) experimental study reviewed (Anderson and Ford) |
| video games and violence 2 |
A -- an
updated (2000) extension of the study above (Anderson and Dill) |
| Dr Will Large's pages | A-- introductions to key philosophical thinkers |
| Dr Vanessa Parffrey's pages | A -- discussion papers on schools, leadership and spirituality |
| Robert Guyver's pages | C -- papers on history teaching/history concepts |
| Dr Paul Grosch's pages | C -- thought-provoking pieces on philosophy and its applications |
| J Haynes and K Murris | C -- a dialogue on philosophising with children |
| I Gilhespy's pages | C -- useful discussions on management and arts/leisure policy |
| Dr Paul Sutton's pages | C -- sociological analysis using Foucaultian approaches |
| Dr Alan Munton's pages |
C -- on Orwell and Wyndham
Lewis, psychiatry and modernism, surrealist poetry and other topics |
| LWrennall's Log | ? -- Lovely critical reflective commentary on learning from a CD |
| links to other websites | TRY HERE FOR ANYTHING NOT INCLUDED ON THIS SITE |
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