What you need to know:

- Consensus perspectives
- Conflict perspectives
- Postmodernism
- Vocational Qualifications
- Social Class
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- School ethos and the hidden curriculum
- Marketisation
- Teacher stereotyping, pupil identities and the halo effect
- Subcultures
- Interactionism
- Sociological perspectives on educational policy
- The politics of education
- The case for private education