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professionals can only be effective if their ethos and practice blends
see such practice as their professional concern.
The next extract illustrates the connection between the personal
and political stance. Here the discussion begins from a concern
voiced by SSl about the value of a technology centre recently estab-
lished in connection with the Nottingdale Urban Studies Centre she
visited with her Method Group.
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SSl - but it seems to me that the centre trains
a few who’re going to get the skills and
forgets about the others who move out of
the area when they get their jobs .....
Res It’s early to judge the centre because the
Tutor technology centre is so new. In the Urban
Studies Centre which has been open for 8
years they can point to particular projects
..... the building of the community hall
SSl
..... But
the printing press that’s had a
few years - I still don’t know
Res But as people do get more experience using
Tutor these things for their own ends, although
they are only ripples it means that insofar
as they do produce action there are challenges
being set up .....
Ml
If you look at what happens say in
Aerospace
Shop Steward's
committee
the Lucas
when they
went to the workforce and.asked them to think
of socially useful products rather than the
arms equipment they were making and the
workers themselves came up with 3θ or 40
products that they could make. Lucas
them down
but
other
companies
are
turned
taking
them up so they learn how to express
in various ways - printing, videos,
they’re likely to be able to do that
own factories and workplaces so it’s
already and I think it’s something
themselves
- things
in their
happening
we could
encourage.