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through a lecture
by the Head (This is referred to in the extracts
for 29 January
previous
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
in
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