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their children
are doing
f) Visiting Tutor
The next extracts concern the visiting tutors attached to the Alter-
native Course.
Both tutors
senior
members
of staff who have
considerable experience in their own schools and were both Institute
students with
of
Alternative
Course ways of working.
The tutor in School C has
worked with
a group previously while
School A itself is new to the Alternative Course.
Here the visiting
tutor organised
the school-based part of the course in consultation
with the school group tutor.
The visiting tutor was familiar with
the course and its ways of working and was interested and enthusiastic
about the possibility of working with student teachers. First in
School C the group are contrasting pupils’ responses to education
by comparing a group of middle class girls in a grammar school with
the working class
pupils
they have met in school.
School C 23.10.81 P12∕13 fi
Tutor
Do you
remember
our Visiting Tutor said
an interesting thing the other day. (Refer-
ence to a seminar held in school)
Both
he and his wife were at School C. His father
was
a docker as
indeed
were most
of the
population - they were in employment but
had not
themselves
stayed on at
school and
Visiting Tutor felt there had been a terrific
falling
away
amongst
kids like him - or
the belief that education could change your
life and offer all kinds of possibilities.
And that raises all kinds of questions .....
..... and says that the kids now don’t feel
the present unemployment situation, ɪ wonder
what that’s to do with.
that school
individuals
has anything to
offer
as
and that in his
view preceded
Hums Well I thought he explained it ..... that