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important is that the student knows where he or she is going and both
the
devleopment and representation of this sense can occur within
and
for the
school group. The students here confront important issues
and
recount
influences
upon them as learners involved in the process
becoming
teachers .
Their capacity to learn is
linked with their
capacity to
teach and
the concern of
professional
education is with
the students
as learners. At the end
of the year a
professional edu-
cation must
accept that there will be
gaps in their knowledge. What
it must also
know
that students
aware of this, concerned and
confident to
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continue their own professional education.
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Res Have you found enough connections with people
Tutor in school to/ obviously you havez - it’s not
a question, it’s a statement - to be able
to articulate these very different points
of view or come to different conclusions about
what the thing is about. You haven’t found
the school a place which has not let you do
that.
SSl I found it a bit different but I think it’s
a bit to do with my own upbringing and things
I got it second hand , largely thanks to
English - I found it very difficult to talk
with anyone on the staff about how I was feeling
but I think through your contact with - I
felt reassured and also the various things
that one picks up.
think the
ajority
of staff
are probably
too concerned with - the control of low ability
children to actually concern themselves with
wider
ications
of what’s happening - is
SSl
that a fair comment.
As Gerald Grace says on busyness, it’s the
system that helps people be busy in order
not to notice what is going on - if you’ve
only got 6 periods a week free and you’re
marking
things
It is difficult.