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a) Active learning experiences

In these early weeks what the students talk about

work over and

most importantly try

to mediate to fellow

embers of the group

are

Ieairning experiences that have actively involved them.

Within the

school group they reconsider the possibilities of such activities

for their own learning as well as in relation to their pupils.

The following extracts contain examples from the Curriculum Option

Course in Reading and Principles and Methods courses in the teaching
of English and Social Studies. In the first extract students have
been asked by the tutor how the options were going. In the second
the English student has brought in material discussed on the previous

day in her

method group which led to a long discussion during the

coffee break.

School B 30.10.81 Pl gi

Reading Option. It was interesting really.

We read this passage from Faulkner that

was

incredibly difficult

enormously

long

words - and when you first looked you
wondered what on earth is all this about

it was interesting for thinking about
the point of view of a child looking at
a book and thinking - My God - we still
didn’t know much about it at the end did
we. It had a strange title that had nothing

to do with the passage and it was very int-
eresting to see everyone’s reactions.

Hums

The

interesting thing was

that

very angry, really frustrated.

I was
did.∏ ' t

know
what

what I was doing but you

kids might feel.

But then

think about
it actually