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The students are pulled back


by the force of their own experience
be experience which leaves a feeling of acute help-

although it may


lessness .


What they find in the


literature


ay bear no relation


to their


own practical capacity or to opportunities offered within

their school.


In the next extract the ideas put forward may be sound

but they have


a hollowness that


is


only


dispelled by



of her own likely incompetence. Here it is clear that the experience
of Jeffcoate however soundly based does not readily translate into

guidance for students on teaching practice.

School C


22.1.82 Pl⅛ ri


Tutor


Surely we feel just as strongly as


Maureen Stone that


there is something schools


do or are for kids


that is important.


Hums


Does she believe that there's a socialisation


policy available - a policy of resocialisation
- I think she catches onto that quite early


- but I think one positive strategy is


Jeffcoates *
any subject
is tenable.


open door policy - he allows


to be asserted,


any racist remark


Let’s have the whole scenario


put forward and after that you have every


possible viewpoint, every viewpoint that
wants to be expressed and there’s no sup-


pression - he doesn't believe in suppressing
- I mean he’s a sort of personf ication of


liberalism - let the


National Front


come


in and have a chair if


they want one - we’ll


listen to their side of it as well.

That side of it I think I would find coping

with that sort of situation very frightening.

I don’t think you should ignore it but at
the present time I don't think I agree with
saying today let's talk about racism because
I think kids would probably be saying what
they think you want them to say - but actually

tackling the problem



encouraging it to come


out as Jeffcoate seems to say


actually ter-


rifies



It scares me stiff because I


think in that situation you've got to be
sure you can cope with it - you've got to
be really sure it's not just a time when
they're going to air their prejudices and
that's going to be it - I think you've got



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