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through a lecture

by the Head (This is referred to in the extracts

for 29 January

But this session begins from

the experience of

women student teachers in a boys school and thus

emphasises that

school’s theory and its

practice are encountered

by participants to who;

the meaning will

vary

according to their

position.

Through the

session there are

illus-

trations of this and it will be suggested that the personal and

social

should

be held together. The next extract provides an

illustration of a

student’s experience from a somewhat unsual angle.

School B

D Head

for example two years ago among the

Institute and Teaching Practice Group was

a very sort of self-contained suave young

who

into my first year humanities

class at the end of double period when I
was doing the whole business, you know, all
this ’sit down’, ’quiet’, 'let’s have you

ready to be dismissed* and the student walked
in and generally I'm not at all sort of cons-

cious

status but

was a double bind

then because this kid right in the front
row said ’oh, good sir, you quieten us down’.
You know, I just went completely sort of
hot and cold and filled with anger and I

thought 'you little

dare you’ and the

what

to me

..... how dare you, how
guy didn't know at all

- so normal, a sort of

large fellow being asked to sort of do the
discipline or whatever it was and it wasn't
as if the class were climbing up the wall
or anything - it was like a natural thing
for the kid to say and a natural thing for
the fellow to receive and what I stood there

feeling they neither of them had the slightest
idea but it was like the whole thing sort

of coming at me just in that isolated second.

made sets of expect-

staff encounter and

This points up clearly that pupils may have ready

ations and ways of behaving that students and

that one element of

that is who in

gender

they are.

If women

students' encounters with classes or with teachers suggest to them