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when those two groups met together, but it is a student who pinpoints
an essential aspect of the official view which has directly influ-
enced practice. Knowledge and awareness of the implications of
policy is intimately related to practice for as SS2 suggests even
when problems are acknowledged the jump from self awareness to consis-
tent staff practices is neither easy nor natural. In the next
extract she takes up the comparison and applies it to a group she
taught on her first teaching practice.
School A 15.1.82 P⅛ bi
SS2
Actually what you
ferent way that
reminds
me
were saying about the dif-
Children might behave in
of a Community Care class
that you (Res. Tutor)
to
see
on
FE
Teaching Practice. They were girls thought
of as difficult girls whom they might
to exclude from their school - and yet
behaved very differently
sure in
like
they
that
context of the college with a teacher who
gave
a real
status .....
This student opted to spend her second block teaching practice
entirely in school, hoping to gain a fuller understanding of pupils
saw
in school and she∕that understanding as a pre-requisite for working
with students in the Further Education setting which she finally
chose to do. Gaps in student knowledge can sometimes be filled in
by experience made available by other students or by that in conjunc-
with∕kn°w⅛^^experienced
and
informed staff which is what was
proposed in relation to VI form work above.
Other questions
require informaticn of a different
kind and in the next extracts pos-
sibilities are discussed. The topic is the treatment and response
of girls in the school.