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It has been suggested that it is not the issues of* the content that
is different for the Alternative Course rather the way of working
and in the next extract it can be seen that the main course and in
particular the general lecture often fails to engage the students
in issues however relevant they might be. Here the topic is the
Aims of Education which is an issue that is basic to education and
yet one that student teachers sometimes pay perfunctory attention
to.

і V School A 14.5.82 Pl ei

SS2


I thought


it was too much


about aims and not enough
context of particular kinds


in general talking
putting it in the
of schools.


Res

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


SS2


Res

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


thing we shall be getting into.



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