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that process realise
the possibility
for
themselves of
a theoretical
approach to practice.
c) Reflection on own subject
For some
students the opportunity to work in depth is taken up in
relation to their own subject.
This was the case with SS2 for whom
becoming a Social
Studies
teacher
Hl
eant finding some
resolution to
the problem she wrote about during her first week in the Institute.
..... Deep down, despite my social understanding and
ideology, I think I really only understand traditional
teaching∕learning situations. It is completely
natural to me, and enjoyable, to lecture to a nice
quiet class; and I donʌt fully grasp why it isn’t
natural to pupils to learn in this way. I sense the
resistance to it, I know it is not a profitable method
and produces a passive relationship to knowledge and
to received authority of all kinds. Nevertheless,
I still need to feel my own way into behaving differ-
ently. (First Thoughts on Becoming a Social Studies
Teacher Oct 1981)
Often the
students perceive critical problems, delineate their dimen-
sions and consider how to address them later in the course and
sometimes as a consequence of experience and consideration of subject
areas other than their own. Here an RE student looks at religions
and moral teaching in School A comparing two planning documents -
one an RE syllabus, the other a social education syllabus.
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..... So as you can see, if you're developing
children to have
moral virtues or ideas fro:
III
a course with these kinds
of aims when they
leave school in the V year - if they've taken
in any of their religious studies course in
actual fact they will have had a very factual
teaching and in my
in some
senses I'm not
so sure that that's the only way you can do
it because anything else would be an indoctri-
nation of some
sort but
as
going on
further and further I don't think the Religious