Politics
Head of Department:
Mr N. Pauro
Other staff members:
Ms D. Almond
Mr J. Lake
Key skills (subject specific) that are developed:
Critical thinking, Evaluation, Discernment, Academic Research, Tolerance, Awareness and Empathy
KS5
KS5 Summary
EDEXCEL, Three Papers: 1. UK Politics 2. UK Government. 3. Global Politics
No Coursework
Additional Reading:
- Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Macmillan.
- George Orwell (1948), 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin Modern Classics
- Headley Bull (1977) The Anarchical Society. London: Macmillan.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (2003) (1532). The Prince. London: Penguin.
- David Runciman (2006) Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear, and Hypocrisy in the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- James C Scott (1998) Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Adam Watson (1992) The Evolution of International Society. London: Routledge.
- Anthony Best et al (2008) International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.
- Bernard Crick (2002) Democracy: A Very Short Introduction Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, Oxford, ISBN: 0192834983
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill, Oxford, ISBN: 0192833847
- Second Treatise of Government, John Locke, Hackett, ISBN: 0915144867
- Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, Oxford, ISBN: 019875163X
- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, Oxford, ISBN: 0192834371
- The English Constitution, Walter Bagehot, Oxford, ISBN: 0192839756
- The Federalist Papers, James Madison et al, Penguin, ISBN: 0140444955
- The Republic, Plato, Penguin, ISBN: 0140449140
- The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine, Oxford, ISBN: 0192835572
- The Social Contract, John-Jacques Rousseau, Penguin, ISBN: 0140442014
Useful websites:
Exam Board
https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/politics-2017.html
Resources
https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/government-politics
Current Events / News Online
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-48039740
https://www.channel4.com/news/
