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needs to know where it is going
or the nature of such knowledge
tutional concern for openness
between schools.
and where it started from. The level
varies through the school and insti-
between its parts similarly varies
In the Research Group
it was suggested that
students in their school
groups
sire in the position
to obtain and generate knowledge that
may be
different from other members of the
Institution and that to
regard their knowledge as inadequate or faulty is to ignore its
potential both for the student’s own developing professional knowledge
and for the contribution it might make to general professional know-
2
ledge .
Here the emphasis is put upon using the different views and knowledge
about multi-cultural education that
the students find in their school.
School A 9.2.82 Pl ai
Visiting Right - I thought it might be useful
Tutor instead of my giving a 20 minute talk about
what I think about it to ask you what you've
picked up in
the school to
terms of the relationship of
issues concerned
with multi-
cultural education. Just to give a start
off I think you can view it in a number of
different ways - one way is in terms of the
relationships between the kids from different
cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Another
is the relationship between the staff and
kids from different cultural and ethnic back-
grounds. You can also look at it in terms
of the curriculum and the materials which
the school uses and puts in front of kids.
Just with those three sort of bits of frame-
work if you like we could start with any
impressions that you've gained about the way
in which the school works and the sorts of
relationships you've noticed and then maybe
I can come in at different points.