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ideas can come from but I think you will
find that if you’ve been to the Institute,
there are very few people that - sounds kind
of elitist, but that see such a finesse of

ideas because they really are well worked

out

Staff (School B) will tell

you that they don’t know anything about multi-
cultural education and yet they know probably
the most of anybody in ILEA. They'll say
they don't really do group work and mixed
ability teaching very well but they do it
a hundred times better than anybody else.

SSl And yet you can't see the organisation, can
you - they don't talk about it and yet it’s
there.

As presently constituted the 1 year PGCE can at best

informally faci-

litate or encourage the kind of continued contact

that E8θ refers

to. What can be seen here is the learning of the young teacher

continuing informally but with more formal elements such as the

teaching practice school or members of the School and Method Groups

still available. For EδO it is suggested that an important part

of his PGCE experience alongside his methods work was the school

group which gave him acess to forms of practice

and fellow students

with whom to make a personal sense of what was offered throughout the

year. The process of professional

socialisation here

emphasises

dialogue ,