You have a lot to get through on this module and being organised is essential. Make sure that you spend your first week familiarising yourself with the assignment tasks, deadlines and marking rubrics and then get started.

Leave yourself at least a day to edit and review your assignment before submitting it. Reading it out loud can be helpful, or ask someone else to cast an eye over it for typos if you can.

Plan your work!

You only have 750 words to write for this assignment so you need to be very clear about the arguments that you want to make. There is no room for descriptive writing here, and definitely no room for vague, superficial language – precis and concise language is needed. So, be brave! Go straight in with the analysis and work to convince your reader of your arguments. Systematic engagement with theoretical concepts is a MUST at this level of writing so make sure you’ve done your reading and participated in all of the learning activities.

Help each other!

Talk about your assignments in your discussions, put your arguments out there and ask others to challenge what you say. This helps us to clarify our ideas and dialogue is key to learning in this module so give it a go and support each other.

Marking and moderation

All work is second marked and moderated internally. A sample of work is then reviewed by an external examiner.

Your work will be assessed using the framework and criteria included in your Module Handbook.

Employability Skills Applied

On successful completion of this module, a student will have had opportunities to demonstrate achievement of the following Employability Skills;

CORE ATTRIBUTES

Engaged

x

Creative

x

Enterprising

Ethical

x

KEY     ATTITUDES

Commitment

x

Curiosity

x

Resilient

x

Confidence

x

Adaptability

x

PRACTICAL     SKILLSETS

Digital fluency

x

Organisation

x

Leadership and team working

Critical thinking

x

Emotional intelligence

x

Communication

x

1. Critically examine the nature of power and inequality in education and society.

This means that you need to provide demonstrate systematic engagement with, and critical analysis of, key theories of power, education and society.

Some questions to help you develop your ideas might include:

What is power?

How is power used?

What is the relationship between power and equality (oppression)?

What is the relationship between power and education?

What is the relationship between power and society?

What is the relationship between all three?

How does this impact on your practice?

How does this impact on education in general?

Your work will be assessed according to the framework and criteria uploaded to Moodle. I strongly suggest that you spend some time looking at this so that you understand the expectations of Level 7 study.

Font should be Arial, Calibri is similar, size 11 or 12

Lines should be spaced at 1.5.

Please submit online via the appropriate Turnitin submission on the module space.