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in isolation. The actual types of teaching that
goes on in
notion that
situation
the school
is
uch
geared
to the
there isn’t going to be a confrontation
in the Maths department it’s the same
at School A ɪ
think you said but the SMILE
syste
Il
is
geared to kids moving around all the
time - you've
got to put up with quite a high degree
of noise and
lots
of unnecessary
ovement
as well.
These extracts show
comparison between schools being used in two
ways.
In the first
where by looking
at another school you
sense
your own in new ways and in the
second
where by trying to
of the experiences of your own
school for another school group your
own understanding is extended.
This work is at a distance from the
anecdotal inclusion of experiences for here the experience is cumu-
lative and so becomes increasingly informed.
As this process continues it affects the student interpretation of
other parts of the course especially where what is offered is seen
as bearing little relation to their definition of the problem.
School B with C 22.1.82 P17 ki P 18 kii
ki
B Hum
That talk we had from a Multi-cultural
Inspector - the
education lecture - was also
about
materials
- what to put up in your
classroom, books to use which was fair enough,
but it wasn’t far enough - as if it was all
coming from the bottom.
CMl
They are much more measurable criteria
though,
aren’t they if they go around inspecting
materials - other things are more difficult
to inspect.
C Hum
He wasn’t talking about the sort
of things
we’ve been talking about here.
viii BSS2
kii
there
primary school they had two HMI and
was some criticism because the class
teacher didn't have any multi-cultural mater
ials in his book library in his class which