The name is absent

CHAPTER FOUR

The first term - before teaching practice

The analysis of four transcripts from three different school group

one day a week in school and the structures of that day with its

seminar remains throughout the course. In the Institute_z, Principles

and Methods, Curriculum and Options and the Education course were

beginning. Alongside these is the school group seminar,-a weekly

meeting taking place on Friday morning in the Institute. The find-

ings are organised under the following themes:

Responsive structures

The nature of the Alternative Course is examined and the integrative

function of the school group is stressed. This integration occurs

across the disparate courses that make up the PGCE as well as between

that work and the school experience.

school group work gives a future orientation within and beyond the
initial training year. Continuity and coherence are served by the
active representation of facets of the students* work in required
course work.

The students^, experience in and of the school is essential to the
development of the professional discourse which is the aim of the

In two of the groups this is enhanced by the availability

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