The name is absent

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SS2

What, how do you mean?

М2

Well you don't necessarily control children
by being soft or strict, do you but you've
got to control them some way - if you can't
control them - if you can't get the classroom

into a situation where

something

can

learned then the content

doesn’t necessarily

supercede that.

SS2

Yes except that in the 2nd criteria - whether
they had a positive attitude to lessons,

whether

they learned anything

ɪ mean didn't

seem tc
teacher
subject

come from
controlled

any notion of the way the

them but

matter, the content

actually the
whether they

were actually interested in what the lesson
was about.

Hums Sometimes they even said they found things

interesting.

Here the literature extends concern in the area of control. This
is one value of theory at work on practice in that it changes the
view. But equally important is the practice students are involved
in and are able to observe. Their own practice is necessarily limited
at this stage hence the value of being able to observe that of other
teachers. In the Research Group this was emphasised as was the cru-
cial importance for students of observation and analysis of their
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own experience and practices. This concern and capacity to question
and interpret experience is what the course

must make available

In the next

extract

the tutor knows that members

of this group have

worked with and on the experience of the Head of Humanities.

iv School B 29.1.82 P10∕ll ai

М2

Not to just keep bandying quotes about but
in P167 it says "Lessons as successful as
those shown above are very rare but the

ability of teachers to provide such

even