School A 9.2.82 P3 ði
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Ml In the Integrated Studies with my group -
the bit (inaudible) on education in the
19th century and discussing the changes -
that there were and they were saying it
was single sex they kept stressing and they
never noticed the colour - they never mentioned
it and I was with a group of about 6 black
boys .
V
Tutor
SS3
Yes, that didn’t come up with mine either.
I remember with that group doing the family
and there’s a black girl writing about the
white family and she had to write about the
difference and she came up
’Is it all right to say
and said
black
and
they’re white’ as if she was sort of trying
to get some response from me on that - you
know - she made it into quite an important
issue .
Ml The other day in Sociology talking about
populaton and death rates and the differences
and Y said 1Is it about immigration and emig-
ration’ and I said ’Yes’ - we'll have to
think about that
- the influence on statistics.
b) Role of the tutor
It is often through tentative beginnings that tutors can see the
professional direction that the student is taking. The directions
are personal
ones but there may
be sufficient convergence of personal
interest and practices within the group for collaborative work to
be sensible. Often students pursue different directions while the
group acts as a sounding board and a support for its members. The
tutor needs to know what is available within the group to help develop
a group sense of working with issues for whilst directions may be
personal they are professionally relevant as the next extract suggests.
School A 9.2.82 P6∕7 hi
SSl
For me
back
to the fundamentals
of exams and everything else as to
what has