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where contemporary concerns guide and influence the selection from

past data. It may not only be a personal synthesis but related to

the professional concerns within the group during the year. Collabor-

ation and co-operation do not always lead to explcitly joint submissions

but only rarely

in an effective working group do individuals pursue

themes that are unrelated to the concerns of others.

If this is the

case

and within this group there are several examples where Course

work enables

students to approach contemporary and personal

issues

from various theoretical positions it underlines the need for school

group tutors knowing and appreciating the possible directions of work
students are undertaking. In most cases neither more nor less than
this is required but without it students are left much as they often
perceive pupils to be left to make sense of a disparate and segmented
curriculum for themselves.

It is difficult to demonstrate the relationship of one student’s course
work to the group that they work in for it is part of a cumulative
process of working together. Students in their work often refer to

other students and

-throughout the

course students

become more confident and articulate about the value

for them of the group.

follows the presentation of the

at an experience shared with other

In the next extract which
paper referred to above SS3 looks
students in the school.