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of material you look at and attitudes to
it and ways of thinking about it and studying
it.

Well, like
curriculum
Britain is
in having a

you say a more international

- incidentally I don’t think

as bad

some

other countries

fervently patriotic, nationalistc

history - not anywhere as bad as the Yanks

and perhaps even the Russians.

Tutor

SS2

Tutor

I wouldn’t want to deny that but

let us off the hook.

isιlt

Let me just
that one о

throw in

Northern

it would

it doesn’t

Europe , the

seem to me

to have
in East
simply.

the things teachers are going
put in whether you’re teaching

Sussex or School C

racism quite

done as
time to

No doubt this society’s always been
but it hasn’t manifested itself or
much harm to people because at one
assume that this society was homogen-

eous was always mistaken - becι
or strong regional differences

was

always mistaken but

raises

think it
itself

different issue now with racisι

some way no

matter

what Maureen

Now

Stone

says .....

Tutor

Racism in all its

forms

not only white racism

How do you set about teaching that?

very confused by that.

When the tutor talks about

recognition’ she means pupil recognition

but for some students, perhaps all in this professional learning
context, there is their own personal recognition. They are beginning
hesitantly with both and too frequently as Research Group students
showed it is not easy to hold onto the necessity for personal change

when faced

with the demands of

classroom

practice

Here the students

have not

sufficiently confronted the issues

in relation to their

own and their school’s practice.

The tutor is attempting to move

cut via the literature

them on to wider considerations but the short
may be the blind alley.