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tor's mindsɪ concerned as they also righ,⅛⅛y are with developments
in their subject, or advances in its pedagogy.
Curriculu
innovation
frequently serves to
ake participants aware of what they and others
take for granted and therefore will often find difficulty in changing.
Students and tutors need a realistic knowledge of this to inform
the
of
both the possibilities and problems of change.
Perhaps it
is the concern with change and development be it subject, in the
case of the university subject specialist, curricular and institu-
tional, for the visiting teacher or the student's own personal and
professional change that gives an underlying identity to the process of
working together on the Alternative Course.
In the following extract the visiting tutor from School A has a know-
ledge of curricular development that for the moment hints at the
classroom reality that students confront and interestingly enough
are still working on at the end of the year.
School A 2.12.83 P6∕7 hi
Quite obviously a main concern
of Integrated
Studies is English across the curriculum
- I think the English specialists have quite
an important role across the
isms her<
obviously
and
- I’m not quite
English is a tool
very important in
subject special-
sure how I mean
for all learning
those two years
- well I think it’s done informally and in
written work which is marked and monitored
fairly regularly -
V
Tutor
I think you can take it a bit further than
that. There are 3 English specialists working
within the team so there' s quite a bit of
English
to see
input but again I think you’ve got
of how it's developed
over the years. When I first started teaching
it most English teachers would tend to do
some English work that was tied into the