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is not so much turned outwards to explain, justify and place one’s
work but to inform its development. Here he dist inguishes between
the capacity о f himself as a student compared with experienced teachers
he admired.
School B 24.11.81 P12 viii
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Well that’s what happens in the classroom
is a kind of culture in itself - you grow
up with the class - you learn how they oper-
ate ,
feeding in infor;
atin all the time which
is quite subjective to the particular teacher
- and you build relationships - you see how
little groups, little power games are played
within that classroom and you don’t begin
to operate it and much of the methodology
of the teacher in the classroom is to operate
the little groups in the classroom towards
learning ,
working ,
and it's
to get the
talking to get
them
confident at what they’re doing
that watching and learning from
that that makes a good teacher rather than
somebody who can present a Sturcture and
say right you kids fit into that which is
the easy one to do - that ’ s the homework
and heavy discipline type of thing.
Here he draws on and makes his own the active Classsroom based
research and professional
concerns that the School Group has worked
on alongside their tutor.
But most
portant
for
a sense
of the
course in encouraging and
enabling such theorising is that
it has
to be produced by the students themselves in the sense of
being
actively worked upon, discussed and applied and finally represented.
Here the representation referred to in 5∙4.ii was a collaborative
production eventually incorporated into the student’s Reports for
assessment. The process referred to takes place over time and the
element of representation
emphasised
throughout
the
course.
It
is not suggested that all students will proceed Uniformally. This
is most unlikely and undesirable given the basic presumptions of