Essentials of Political Ideas - For Pearson Edexcel Politics A-Level

Refreshed and completely restructured to align with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this is the new edition of Andrew Heywood''s highly respected introduction to political ideas, ideologies and thinkers for A-Level students. Essentials of Political Ideas is the only Edexcel-specific text on ideas on the market. Suitable for flexible use across all ideas components of the A-Level course, it offers full coverage of both the core political ideas (conservatism, liberalism and socialism) and the non-core ideas (anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism and nationalism). Drawing on her extensive teaching, examining and workshop experience, Kathy Schindler has adapted the text to make it even more student-friendly and focused on exam success. Practical and informative pedagogy, from Key Thinker boxes to Similarities and Differences summaries, will enable students to understand and analyse key political concepts and thinkers and construct persuasive arguments using the correct terminology. This new edition offers: A dedicated Exam Skills chapter, giving advice for exam success alongside annotated example answers An extensive companion website with further sample answers, teaching tips, revision planning resources, links for further study and more Coverage of thinkers not included on the specification, helping students to place their understanding in a broader context>

About the author

Kathy Schindler has been teaching Politics for over 30 years, working in a large comprehensive school in London for much of that time. Kathy is part of the Senior Examination Team for a large exam board and was involved in the development of the 2017 Politics specification. Kathy is also one of the exam board's Politics Subject Specialists and has led many training sessions for them around the country, helping teachers to deliver the specification, as well as supporting individual politics teachers and departments and holding student revision conferences in schools. Kathy has also written the Essentials of Political Ideas, published by Bloomsbury, and textbooks published by Pearson.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Heywood, Heywood Andrew, Kathy Schindler
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781350382381
• ISBN: 978-1-350-38238-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 276 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Essentials of… for Edexcel A-level Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Political ideologies and movements, Designed / suitable for A and AS Level (England and Wales), Educational: Politics and constitution, A/AS Level study & revision guides, Textbook, coursework, Edexcel, Designed / suitable for A and AS Level (Northern Ireland)