1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is a repressive state apparatus? Give two examples | An institution that uses force or threat of force to make individuals behave, e.g. Police and army | 2. Identify two reasons why learners rebel against the education system | The SFP, to control boredom, they are anti-school, they are prepared to fail | 3. Name the Marxist who said education reproduces and legitimated inequality | Althusser | 4. Identify two institutions that have replaced Religion as an ideological state apparatus | Education and Media | 5. What is the Hawthorn Effect? | This describes individuals changing their behaviour because they know they're being observed/researched | 6. True or False - Marxists and functionalists agree that education transmits the norms and values of society? | True | 7. List the three Marxists we have studied in Education | Althusser, Willis and Bowles and Gintis | 8. Identify two criticisms of Willis' work | Small sample size, only focused on males, hawthorn effect could've impacted on behaviour | 9. How did the working class lads in Willis' study view manual work? What about office work? | Manual work as masculine and office work as feminine | 10. What is meant by 'social solidarity? | A sense of belonging | 11. What is an ISA? | Ideological State Apparatus - refers to institutions, such as, the media, that control the way we think and subsequently how we behave | 12. What is the 'correspondence principle'. Give two examples | It is the way that education reflects or mirrors the workplace. It prepares learners for their inferior position in a capitalist workforce, e.g. Learning to submit to authority and fragmented days | 13. Explain the difference between a fordist and post-fordist society? | A fordist society is one that requires low skilled workers to work on mass production, factory lines. A post-forrdist society requires workers to be innovative, creative and autonomous so they can compete in a global market that needs regular updating of skills and massive technological changes | 14. Define ideology | A set of ideas (now means a set of ideas and values that are used to exploit one group over another) | 15. What is the difference between micro and macro approaches? | Micro approaches focus on individuals whereas macro approaches focus on society |
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