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and the personal yet this is essential, θ
needs to develop such ways of working and
Teacher education itself
can only do this providing
it has a degree of self consciousness
and
a commitment to an
explor-
atory and reflective stance.
Beyond this students need to see the
consequences of professional knowledge at work in schools.
If profes-
sional knowledge is future oriented as well
as exploratory and reflective
then students need to see it in action and the school base allows for this.
a) School culture
the next extract where women students from the school group met
with the Deputy Head and the Reseach Tutor they encounter ways of
thinking about teaching that inform not only the Deputy Head's
practice which they are familiar with but aspects of the underlying
philosophy that is an important strand in the school's thinking and
direction.
School B 2.3.82
Deputy
Head
authority
authoritarianisι
is a tricky term because
is a word that usually
follows and it’s not one I want to live by
but I fairly firmly believe that whatever
affect I may have towards discipline has
in the past been to do with knowing and working
with kids .....
There’s the history thing pays off
too
and it's time and again somebody’s brother
who was here five years ago, you know and
the kid has been sent
to you for being some
real demon - you suddenly find that there’s
a relationship there which changes their
image of you too as well as your image of
them - so if you happen to teach the older
brother or whatever and suddenly that all
comes back.
is explained both to the
The underlying philosophy of the school
school group and to PGCE students generally in the Institute