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to be really well sussed out in what you’re
doing. I don’t think I could handle that.
Equally
problematic
in their relation to
practice are assumptions
about the social world inhabited by pupils for the asertion that
society is multi-cultural therefore education must be, fails to
apprehend the different social realities experienced by pupils and
teachers .
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SS2
I know from my background in Liverpool
never
any black people at all and I
think if you’re talking about reflecting
reality
reality
that
isn’t going to
reflect their
because they don’t
actually come
into contact with the;
b) Place of educational issues
The background referred to by SS2 cannot be
ignored for institu-
tionalised racism renders invisible sections of the society.
processes continue to render the working class invisible obscuring
the social forces that give rise to their position. Enabling student
teachers to confront inequalities due to race, sex or class requires
academ-
much of tutors and higher education provides well-trodden and
ically respectable pursuits which may not always be most helpful.
In the
next extract there
is
an
example of this where tutors
move
to their own subjects in
an attempt to give examples of curriculu
change .
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Tutor
but
the issue is that something called
literature is studied at A level by practi-