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I wonder why we’re considered to have changed

so

uch

from school - because in school they

SSl

and in more and more

primary schools children

be

the

lecture

this

morning

in a sense

that

bit of higher educa⅜ton has been imported

into the secondary

school but not the seminar

which seems to me
education.

to be basic to university

The students here are expressing knowledge about the

process of

learning

that

comes

knowing themselves

as learners.

The actual

process will

contain false starts and blind alleys as well as forward

movement and this will be seen in later extracts. But it does enable

individuals to be active participants

in a situation which focusses

on their learning not on someone else’s

knowledge.

In the Research Group it was pointed

out how important a source of

experience the student’s own experience as a learner had been but

how all too frequently positive models

were hard for students to find.

Explanations are

not hard to come by for secondary and higher edu-

cation but this

should not

be so for professional courses in higher

education whose aim is

improvement

in the quality of teaching and

learning.

Certainly the Research Group, aware of the contradictions

of Alternative

and Main Course were

critical

of

Il

ιainstream

Il

ethods.