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the community was so close knit, allied
to specific industries, docking principally,
which has now declined as well and there
was
an undercurrent
oriented
people, there was a sort of network going
on whereby the kids had no esteem for the
value of education because they knew
in the area who could fix the
up with
people
jobs .
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I wonder if that’s more a function of the
change in School C, the reason for the dis-
illusion, the whole area, look at the council
blocks .
The visiting tutor's views - given in a school seminar are
now
available to be worked with
to be extended and questioned.
That
this occurs later is important for it
indicates the need for students
to return to and work with what they are offered.
It is important
that space
is created for students to return to ideas so that they
can develop and make
their personal response.
The ideas of school
teachers and tutors have a force
of authority and experience which
is removed from the more tentative
formulation of students.
Students
often need to consider the
ideas more hypothetically and enabling
them to do this is not easy and requires careful planning and
consideration
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Not only may the meaning and authority of school-based knowledge
change as it moves between the shcool and the training institution
- often theories or facts taught in the latter prove difficult to
work with in the school setting.
School A
6.11.81 P18 fii
SSl Two things about looking at children.
Visiting Tutor warned us to be careful
of talking about social class to department
head .....we said we wanted the addresses
for geographical scatter ..... it was .....