I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
A Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The European Council, The European Parliament in Strasbourg, The European Parliament, Number of MEPs per member state since 2014, Representation of groups/factions in the European Parliament since the 2014 election, European Parliament Responsibilities, European Parliament Democratic Deficit, The Council of Ministers, The Council of the EU, Votes per country in the Council of Ministers and The European Commission.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Home Rule Bills for Ireland, the Growth of Unionism, the Growth of Nationalism, Government of Ireland Act, Devolution after 1920, Differing Perspectives on the devolved Unionist Government from 1920, the 1937 Irish Free State Constitution Deal, How Realistic Were Unionist Fears? Excuse or Explanation for Discrimination? to What Extent were Nationalists to Blame? Self-Exclusion from Devolved Government, Possibilities for the Reform of Devolved Government by the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, the Inability of the Devolved Government to Adequately Reform, a Difficult-to-Reform Polity, the British Response to the Problems of the Unionist Devolved Government in 1969, British Policy Initiatives in Northern Ireland since 1969, the growing intra-unionist challenge to the devolved Unionist Government, the end of the Devolved Unionist government, UK Government Green Paper 1972, Sunningdale Agreement 1973, New Devolution Proposed via the UK Government’s 1973 White Paper that was later agreed at Sunningdale, December 1973, Unionist Mistrust of the SDLP and the Council of Ireland, Implementing Devolved Power Sharing: the Collapse of Support and the Collapse of Devolved Power Sharing, May 1974.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Definitions, Key Features of Post-Modernism, Ten Points of Post-Modernism & Style, Faith Could Re-emerge as Scientific Thinking Loses Significance, Jacques Derrida, Jean Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Key Terms, From Modernity to Post-Modernity, Postmodernism and History, Fukuyama, Postmodernism and Ideology, Postmodernism and Society, Postmodernism and Political Action and Criticisms.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Defining the EU’s Democratic Deficit, The EU Institutions, Arguments for and Against the Existence of a Democratic Deficit and Moves to make the EU more Democratic.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Myth, Identity and the EU, Analysing Regionalism, Early European Integration, ECSC-EC, First Enlargements, Empire by Invitation?, Stagnation to Dynamism (and back), Single European Act, German Reunification and Eastern Enlargement, EU as International Actor and Soft/Hard Power.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Environmental Problems, Globalisation and the Environment
Efforts to Combat Environmental Problems and IR and the Environment.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Tracing Europe’s Left and Right, A revolutionary history, Ideologies: The rise of the‘isms’, Nationalism in European politics and Political systems: A Europe of many types? - From liberal democracies to ‘people’s democracies’ and Legacies.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Westphalia to the ‘Third Wave’, Sovereignty: What is it? Anachronistic? Pressure from Above and Below: the Globalisation Thesis, Pressure from within: Public Trust, Political Parties, Electoral Systems and Power, Performance and Legitimacy: Collapse or Change?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is Europe? European Political Traditions, Assessing the State of Democracy in Europe Today, Globalization and the Crisis of the Nation State in Europe, the Decline of Political Parties, Power and the Contemporary European State, Democracy and the EU, Regionalism and European integration, Immigration, Europe and the Rise of the Far Right and Europe and the World.
Comprehensive Presentation that includes: What is a Political Party? Cleavages and the ‘Golden Age’, Political Science and Political Parties and Prognosis: terminal decline? - Measuring the End of the Party and Weighing up the Arguments.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Does the EU Have a Foreign Policy, and How Effective is it? How does the EU Deal with its Neighbours? What Sort of Identity Does the EU Have on the World Stage? and Is the EU in Crisis, Where is It Heading?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Europeanisation and Integration, Party Politics, Left, Right, and Multiculturalism, Explaining Party Performance, Populism, Public Backlash or Political Opportunism? The Far Right - a Clear and Present Danger?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Marxism: The Backstory, Marxist Assumptions and Propositions, Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, Case Study and Criticisms of Marxism.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Constructivism: The Backstory, Constructivism and the Cold War, Constructivist Assumptions and Propositions, Key Thinkers in Constructivism, Case Study: Iraq War 2003 and Criticisms of Constructivism.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Second World War, The Origins of the Cold War, Selected Major Events During the Cold War, The End of the Cold War and IR Theory and the Cold War.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Post Cold War World, 9/11 and the ‘War on Terror’, Rise of BRICs, The Broadening Concept of Security and Role of Globalisation and Focus on Terrorism.
A Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Historical background: The Franco Dictatorship and Europe, 1976-1986: Spain’s Transition to Democracy and EC Membership, The Impact of Spain’s Membership on the European Community and The Positions of Spain’s Three Most Influential Political Parties on Europe.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: ‘One must genuinely create Europe.’ (Jean Monnet, 1950, What is a Collective Identity? Symbols of Europe / Europeaness (flag, anthem, Europe Day, the Euro) and European Identity and European Citizenship.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Issues of Governance such as the Union, the Scottish Office, Accountability/Legitimacy and the decline of Conservative Unionism. It also covers the Rise of Nationalism, the Growth of the SNP and the Unionist Responses from the Conservative and Labour Parties, examines the bringing about of devolution such as the 1st Attempt in 1979 – the campaign and result, the ‘Thatcher Factor, the Constitutional Convention, 2nd Attempt in 1997– the campaign and result and the 2014 Independence Referendum.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Indicators of Religiosity in Northern Ireland, Religion and the Conflict in Northern Ireland and Anti-Catholicism.