The name is absent

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I thought

it was too much

about aims and not enough
context of particular kinds

in general talking
putting it in the
of schools.

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Tutor

..... I don’t know whether you took notes
- if you didn’t his book  (White 1982)  is

probably the best way back to a lot of his

ideas. He seemed to me to be saying a lot

about programmes  like  Social Education  and

a tremendous lot about the Medway book -
Finding a Language (1980) - it's a very con-
temporary definition of what it is to be an
autonomous learning person and to have that
aim in education and it’s written in a totally

different way to the way John White was

talking this morning. It is actually situated

in a particular school with a particular group

of people but it’s very explicit on what that

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Tutor

autonomy might

in practical terms.

That was what was missing from the lecture
wasn't it - it was too schematic, wasn't it.

Yes, it was Scheniatic but it seems to me that
it works if you’ve got a body of practice
which you can then apply it to and think it

out in your own
that the whole

terms and it did seem to me

Social Education things. and

its relationship to other areas of the curri-
culum - it might give us quite a bit of
clarity in thinking about that for next week

go back and think
the contradictions

it over

those terms

and confusions within

a school in terms -,of
for pupils which is

what it is setting out

very

the

sort of