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d) School-based knowledge and educational literature
It was suggested in this section that the literature students use
may
.always
not/ serve to further their exploration
although it provided the
sort of summary of positions and liberal use of examples
that charac-
terises
literature
addressed to
student teachers.
It may be
that such literature tries to address the experiences and knowledge
of the students but that
examples
are innaccessible
frequently
shortened to let the argument get underway.
The following discussion of a transcript where control is the theme
illustrates the use of a different type of literature. Here short
articles which are extracts from research into classroom are used
(Hammersley and Woods 1976).
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М2
- and the next article - the Furlong one
- what was I going to say aboιit that. Yes,
this has got to
we really need
interact within
do with the suggestion that
to understand how children
the
Classrooi
Hl
not just in
terms of interaction between the teacher
and the child if we want to understand why
there is discipline problems in classrooms,
we need to understand how they set up their
own groups and how they react in their own
groups and he — yes, it is a he, he mentions
his wife.
SS2
It’s funny I reacted to
it quite differently
when I thought it was
woman
and then in
the end -
- laughter -
М2
The
main
point
children within
the classroom,
relationship of
I took is the need to view
their own little world in
not to always look at the
the teacher and the pupil
but to understand the very complicated rela-
tionships between individuals and groups
within the class. I think it makes too much
of the varied perceptions children have of
what goes on within the Classrooi