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A further critical consideration, referring directly to pedagogy rather
than to content, concerns the ’’wider skills and understandings" (1983
Para 12) that the criteria indicate. The recommendation that "Opport-

unities should be provided for students to reflect on and learn from
their own classroom experience, and to place their role as a teacher

within the broader context of educational            (1983 Para 12)

is one that probably receives general assent from those concerned

with teacher education. Yet such opportunities are not widespread
in the university courses which were the subject of the Leicester

research.

Taylor has drawn attention to the contradictions between exhortation,

accounts


and practices in


teacher education in his emp⅛∙sis upon the


place of rhetoric in the discourse of the subject.

Thus rhetoric inevitably plays an important part in

the discourse of our subject. A great deal of what

is written and said is not


to inform,


or to


facilitate analysis, or to encourage critical discri-
mination, but to exhort, to inspire, to motivate,
to enthuse. (1983)

Inspiration, motivation


enthusiasm



may


on occasion be in short supply


in teacher education but of equal


if not more importance teacher


educators require knowledge


on which to base changes and extensions


of their existing practices


And as Taylor suggests:


not only is our knowledge and understanding


of


what


can and should be


done



but we are


not terribly good at bringing what knowledge we


do


possess


to bear on the solution of problems.


(1983)


Considering that

the need for a better relation between training insti-
tutions and the schools has been ubiquitous in the
rhetoric of teacher education for as long as people
have been writing and uttering in this field (1983)



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