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The explanations given so far go only a part of the way to clarifying
what SSl feels about her position as a woman teacher. SS2 is quite

clear about


the way she sees it - whilst there are possibilities

for a woman as a teacher her theoretical stance and practical experi-

ence


inside


and outside education suggest that they face sometimes


intractable problems.


School B 2.3.82 P8∕9 ni P9 nii niii

SS2


One of the good things about not being able

to resort



that



!sanction is that


you have


to abandon all those - the awful


things that go with


maintaining control and


authority that a lot


of


male


teachers have


because you can’t do


it - you know authori-


tarian or whatever you might like to call


Il


anifest


itself in various forms


of exhibitions of physical strength or whatever
- it does mean that because you haven’t got
acess to all that you actually do have to

rely on building relationships, real relation-
ships with kids and all the rest of it and

presumably we would say that that is a better

way of teaching - being a teacher.

D Head


The



way


- although I wouldn't say


that that' s how


I wanted it to be all the


time I mean part


of it from the kids* point


of view I actually believe that they should


be able to accept and talk about feelings




SS2


..... but in theory you see it’s actually
good that we have to rely on developing those
'kind of relationships' and all the things
that go with that - how you’re going to teach
and everything but in practice I mean we’re
living in a sexist society -



even mixed schools are sexist


institutions .


They are actually based
ing and male ways of
all the rest of it - I


on male ways of teach-


Controlling kids and
think that again we've


just been working our way round to saying,
well this is actually good that we've got

to rely on female ways of doing it and not
actually recognising the total problems that



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