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them open to another unpowerful figure coming
into the classroom - you know which I think
is quite a positive thing for them - it
doesn’t mean there won’t be difficulties
- there’s just a different attitude in the
boys once they’ve been taught - even though
it is difficult - it’s probably .....
DH
There are some
class histories
ships, say in
good
some bad examples of
with women and
also partner-
and female teachers.
Acknowledging that there will be difficulties is
so is the capacity to analyse where some of these difficulties come
from.
important but equally
School B 2.3.82 P10∕ll kii
SS2
Well - yes - it’s interesting in class when
teacher X was doing kinds of work and kinds
of workers and all the examples that he was
giving
were
men
except
obvious
areas
secretaries were women and all the rest
it - and I tried to say something like, oh,
about
doctors
and things that
some
of them
were
women
but
his response was,
you know,
the real workers - in the real world most
doctors are men so really we can’t talk
about
a false kind of picture of things.
Yes, I take issue with the real world
- maybe that’s one of the advantages
that
an established teacher has over
somebody
with a short term contract - that sort of
dialogue you can get going with a class when
you’ve got another teacher there -
SS2 refers to a class where for her a productive dialogue between
students and teacher is not yet established and draws attention to
the
important
fact that
the essentials of a team relationship cannot
be legislated for either
between members of staff or staff and students.
New beginnings
are not always possible within the one year course
and yet sometimes they may be important.