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8.1 Responsive structures
a) Integrative function of group over PGCE course
In the
two previous terms the place of the
school
groups as a forum
for
the
concerns of subject method group and
option work was commented
upon.
With regard to options the Research Group
felt strongly that
Foundation Option Courses stood outside their academic and professional
1 ,
concerns. In the school groups attempts were made to enable students
to use the Option course as a place to explore or develop a particular
concern. Impressions suggest that this attempt is unlikely to be
successful where the Option Course primarily caters for non-Alter-
native Course students, essentially working within a different pedagogic
frame. However the possibility of producing an extensive sustained
piece of work in relation to the Option did give Alternative Course
students an opportunity for choice that may be utilised. Much depends
on the role of the school group tutor both in guiding students and
Changes in the system of
in knowing what it is they are doing.
assessment since
1982-3 have made the school group tutor’s
respons-
ibilities clearer but they are apparent
in these transcripts.
The
topic of the seminar is a student’s essay for the History of Education
Option, supervised by a member of Option staff and discussed with the
various
Research Tutor as a part of the student, s course work at
points in the year.
School A 7.5.82 P⅛∕5 ai
Res
Tutor
This week we're going to look at Social Control
and Education with SS3 - SS2 is going to look
at the Grace ( 1978 ) but we'll have to do that
later - this is based on your Foundaticn Option
- it starts off in the History of Education
but has a lot to do with what shcools, teachers
and kids are up to now - there are parallels.