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There is nothing exceptional about the framework which could be filled
out by available literature or detailed accounts of school practice.
Either course
might
fail to address the experience and
knowledge
of students that comes from being in school.
In any school on no matter what issue students are
likely to meet
with diversity of
views and practices some of which run counter to
official policy. Teacher education needs to confront this in its
work with students for it cannot afford to accept the official or
the approved view without question. In the school group seminars,
students have access to the Head and to other senior staff and this
is important.
Here the
picture becomes one of
increasing complexity
within one school at the level of practice and conceptualisation.
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V
Tutor
..... An interesting thing for science when
you could take the view - we’re just teaching
science, what
Culturalism
has that go
that’s for
to do with multi-
but
(Head
the
presented
of
way
the
Science )
Social Studies
brought up as
in which technology
an
is
physics they do is British
Ml
V
Tutor
And extremely male dominated.
Yes, that as well and it’s very easy to slip
into a sort of Western life is developed
and well-orgnaised - they’ve been taught
like that, the rest is primitve, inefficient,
disorganised and you can see that coming
into, say, conservation of energy.
much there is to
a problem of the
I was just thinking how
be done because there is
token black.
I think there is that problem of the token
black. I definitely got that feeling with
the ’family pack’ (used in Integrated Studies
(Wagstaffe 1979) with one black and one Asian
family - the rest were white. I felt they