The name is absent



164


SS2


Something here about Asians


- you know


that


class I have in FE (to Research Tutor

who has observed the class), a class of West

Indian women talking about race discrimination

against blacks and the whole lesson turned
into a long list of remarks against Asians,
it was absolutely extraordinary.

V

Tutor


But in some respects perhaps sooner or later

you could argue you have to confront it
because there's no doubt about it, it does
exist and the trouble is, in a school like

this where Asian kids are


very much


in


the



inority


- although I don’t think there’s


much direct


aggro against them there ’ s cert-


ainly a way in which the white kids and the


West Indian kids can be quite happy leaving


each other - not bothering each other but


focussing any prejudice they have got upon


Asians
a West


so that for example, a white kid and


Indiancan both make an Asian joke.


The concern resonates


for other students in the group who are also


encountering forms of


in their own classes.


This issue is


held close to the practical context and this is an

important feature


of common experiences in school group work.

multi-dimensional


life which either


influenced by and demonstrating features of school
disappear or appear differently in the official rhetoric of the school
or in educational writing. This will be explored in detail in rel-
ation to transcripts dealing with multi-cultural education in the
Spring term. In this context it is in relation to practice that
problems and issues arise and solutions are propounded. On its own
this would be insufficient but the presence of the tutor, the likely
recording of ideas and incidents referred to in the student’s diary
make it likely that by the end of the course a much richer, complex

and thorough analysis will be


:ade by each student or made available

to them through the work of members of the group. This is one long
term aspect of how the school group allows for change and development.

Here it is important to note the differences between the visiting



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