Resources Repository

Resources (scroll down for Selected Essays)

My Education Philosophy:

Explained most clearly in a story called “The Watermelon” taken from Nick Owen’s “The Magic of Metaphor”

Psychology A-Level Teaching:

Anomalistic Psychology Revision Guide

Anomalistic Psychology Scheme of Work – AQA – A2 Level – Paper 4

Cognitive Psychology Scheme of Work – AQA – AS Level

Stress Psychology Scheme of Work – AQA – AS Level

Psychology of Christmas Activity – definitely not on a spec!

Positive Psychology:

What happened next – a resource for getting teachers thinking about the importance of psychology in teaching

The Impact of Learning Metaphors on Student Self-Efficacy & Achievement – My MSc Positive Psychology Dissertation

Selected Essays

This is a collection of essays I wrote because a tutor asked for them during A-Levels or a degree. I’ve chosen ones that I think might be interesting. Some are good examples of writing, others are horribly unstructured and imprecise. The views expressed in them often bear little resemblance to what I currently think such is the inevitable consequence of living and learning. These essays do, however, reflect the things I read, considered and wrote on my way to the opinions I hold today.

Film Studies A-Level:

Discuss how the French New Wave period of the late 1950s and early 1960s represent a fresh alternative approach to film making

With reference to Australian films, discuss what defines them as a product of distinctive national cinema and what marks them out as different from other dominant international cinema

How do elements of cinematic style contribute to the meaning and effectiveness of the extract from “Breaking the Waves”? And to what extent do their use deviate from conventional realist practices?

How is meaning constructed both visually and aurally through point of view in the extract from Taxi Driver? To what extent is this approach to narration typical of narrative cinema?

Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Oxford University

What determines the level of wages in various occupations? Why do men earn more than women? (Economics, 1st Yr)

“The rise of the Labour Party had more to do with class consciousness than socialism” Discuss (Politics, 2nd Yr)

What is the origin of the underclass? (Politics, 2nd Yr)

If ethnicity is ‘invented’ why is it so prevalent and intractable? (Politics, 2nd Yr)

What is the best explanation for the difference that have developed between social welfare arrangements in different advanced capitalist countries? (Politics, 2nd Yr)

What must survive for me to survive? (Philosophy, 2nd Yr)