The name is absent

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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).

School B 29.1.82 P3 yi

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

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