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department will make good Humanities teachers
and whether they will have this same philo-
sophy and ideology so that's a practical
problem that he doesn't have the power to
recruit - certain things that he may be looking
for the Geography department may not be
looking for.

Tutor

And that can go back and back, can't it as
we were looking at the way that people are
brought up and trained to believe themselves

to be, as it were, Geography teachers and

now when they start to work with others they're

not only bringing their Geography, as it

were, but there’s going to be some new terri-

tory and

one of the problems

in a place like

School C is that they haven't faced that

- they still are History, Geography teachers

more or
but they

less satisfactorily interlocking

haven't quite allowed themselves

what is very frightening maybe for teachers

initially as

that there maybe something else

that they’re engaging with -

The sense of the innovation within the wider framework of the school

enables the students to address issues

as they impinge on themselves

as students and prospective teachers.

as with

aspects

of professional knowledge what is required is a wider conception
of what it means to be a teacher. In this area of multi-cultural

education much more is required than new skills and new materials
for fundamental changes in attitude and in practice are called for.
Confronting established staff working or not working towards this
makes one’s own difficulties more readily available. Students need
to assess themselves and their school to understand the possibility
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or direction of any change.