The name is absent

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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

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-

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

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

concerns that the School Group has worked

to be produced by the students themselves in the sense of

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

is not suggested that all students will proceed Uniformally. This

is most unlikely and undesirable given the basic presumptions of

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