Thoughts on globalisation and education as the 30 mark question?

My sociology teacher was saying it was likely that globalisation would be a 30 mark question on the education paper, and was also saying my class would be at a massive advantage if it was, because according to her a lot of other colleges don't really go into detail about globalisation. However, surely that wouldn't be the case, and looking at textbooks and class content there's not really that much about globalisation in education - does anyone else think this is likely, and does your college go into depth on globalisation or not?

hiya xx
My college didn't go into depth about it so I had to take matters into my own hands and research into it. It is likely but I wouldn't be too concerned. Like you said, it hasn't really come up. I would still focus on ethnicity or class as the 30 marker because that too hasn't come up either.

Since you went into loads of detail with your teacher, are there any key theorists? I know the marxist, hyper globalist, neo liberal and fordist view but are there any others? xx

Hi! Thank you for your reply

We went into a bit of depth, but didn't really go into any theorists, which was my main concern, it was more just examples from society (such as policies like EBACC, PISA and global league tables, the Scandinavian free schools, curriculum subjects, like languages and RE, and policies within schools like prayer facilities, PREVENT and studying abroad), so I don't really feel too confident about writing about it, since the only sociologists I could think off would be cross-topic links from social policy or the new right.

I have mixed feelings about it being a 30 marker to be honest, on the one hand I'm not really confident about it, but it seems like most people aren't either - ethnicity or class would definitely be better.

no i defo agree. I do think there is a chance with it being a 10 marker or something like that?
How you feeling about MIC?

Yeah same, a 10 marker would be pretty good for globalisation imo.
For me it could go either way, there's not too much content to it so I think whatever the question is it should be manageable? I think a lot of people tend to not revise the MIC questions or miss them out, so I'm just going over past questions and revising the basics tbh

tbh i don’t think there’s a way to ask a whole 30 marker on globalisation without it linking quite heavily to policies. and the 30 mark last year was on policies so i think it’s unlikely they’ll ask about it again! i think it’s likely to come up as a 10 marker or one of the short Qs though

miss them out??? it's so many marks...

ik,, my teacher was saying its apparently quite common? especially for the 10 marker at the end?

i saw a past response where a person wrote three sentences and got three marks. Literally refuse to miss a question.

praying for a social class 30 marker >_<

oh fr, I'm taking all the marks I can get tbh pksjs
same, social class or gender and achievement would be so good

i heard gender was on the AS so it might not come up?
but then again don't trust me because my predictions are always incorrect :,)

i saw a past response where a person wrote three sentences and got three marks. Literally refuse to miss a question.

praying for a social class 30 marker >_<

social class 30 marker came up in 2018 so thats not likely

social class 30 marker came up in 2018 so thats not likely

will probs be processes within skls e.g labelling, streaming, setting linked to social group identities? (gender, class, ethnicity)

theres so much within processes in schools, im hoping so much for an action theory/social groups question 🙏🙏

I don't understand action theories could you please explain it to me