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were prepared because somebody felt they
should be in - it's almost a bit condescending.
You have to be very careful of the way it
is introduced. I don't know how you get
over that.
V
Tutor
I could go through
which we've tried to
rated Studies - if
the different ways in
think about it in Integ-
you’re
interested
The student's
in the curriculum side.
concerns are different for without the visiting tutor's
experience of for example developing curriculum, selecting materials
they see and experience quite distinct problems.
What then is impor-
tant
is their capacity to use what the visiting tutor has to offer.
In the following extracts it is his knowledge
of classes working
over time and of individual pupils in school that
students work with.
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SS2 I think we have to think a bit about how
to go about head on discussions with the
older children. I mean I find it hard to
believe that there's never any overt open
discussion of racism among the older children.
V Oh, yes there is .....
Tutor
SS2 What do you find out about it then among
the black kids?
V
Tutor
It's interesting - very often they're less
pussy footing about it than many adults are
just
something that exists
some extent they accept exists.
≠
no illusions about it. I think
which to
They have
the older
kids especially if you're talking in,
the VI form. But it is interesting, I
say ,
mean
one of my CSE groups is doing Race Relations
- I don't know whether SS3 you've talked
to
about
it - their original idea -
2 black lads and one white was to do a
questionnaire - the first question of which
was 'Are you racially prejudiced?' and it
went on from there basically - with the next
question 'Why don't you like black people?'
And their attitude is to bowl right in and
confront it -