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School C 23.10.81 P16 ei
Tutor
..... And the question of what would it
be to have a curriculum that was sensitive
to the school’s present population or indeed
to a society which is changing all over
so you may get a school like School C which
isn’t all that culturally mixed compared
with some London schools,
does that mean
that it has more or less or the same respon-
sibilities to adapt
it’s curriculum to a
changed society even
population is not all
we’re going to come
though it's own local
that different. Well,
back to all those -
М2
It seems strange that because we're going
to integrate all the ethnically non-British
The general
people into the
to think
School C
different
community which one does
that therefore the school like
should have a curriculum that’s
fro:
one where the population
is 90% West Indian in a way perhaps they
should both have the same -
issue of multi-cultural education is related to the
specific known characteristics of the school. The issue is estab-
lished as a concern of the group.
In the next extract a tutor’s
detailed knowledge of school provision and policy over t:;me is shown.
School B 30.10.81 P9 eii
Ml
Can I just mention
the
remedial
- they're
bringing in a teacher from the remedial
department
to one first year class to help
with children who’re having problems - which
again is interesting because although the
language used in the basic cards is minimal
it can still be a problem for children.
Tutor
There's another bit of that history
but as School B as a school has committed
itself to integration it’s rippled out from
Humanities
once the Remedial
was
withdrawal operation but
step was for Remedial teachers
Humanities teachers as well
so
Department
its first
to become
they work
in classes and withdraw. At the same time
the
that
Remedial Department trying to work out
contradiction that most
remedial
kids