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There are many unresolved issues in what she says and when she says

that it's a subject that perhaps needs


Il


ore thinking about than others'


she echoes a frequently expressed and strongly held


belief of RE tutors


in the Institute


as well as RE teachers.


And yet


many of the issues


arise and may be


addressed within schools as well as within teacher


education outside the confines


of


subject


method


discourse .


Transform-


ations are


not only effected


from within the parameters of subject


they take place in a social and political context and no where is

this


true than


in an inner city comprehensive school which for


this student has generated essential questions.

In the next extract which also refers to the social and political

background of pupils the students have been looking at language

learning with the English student informing them froι


Il


her own subject


and departmental perspective.


Throughout the


account are examples


of children's writing and


talking


which


come



classes


she has


taught herself and worked in with her head of


department.


The


students listen to a piece


of tape from one of her


classes where the


students both talk and write in dialect.


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..... I think they really got the
you can be thinking something very


from


what you're saying and that’s
it - just letting them write


idea that
different
one way

- she can


SS2


obviously write quit
well as dialect forms.


in standard as



children


in dialect then they must


know the conventions and therefore see dialect
written. I mean there are things in school
like Linden Kwesi Johnson's ( hU) collection.
Do you see what I mean? There's a notion
of convention that this child has surely

have done it before lots of time to

do it.



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