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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
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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
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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.