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SS3 There is quite a lot in the department.
Eng Well X said she hadn’t done anything with
them on that before so I don’t know what they’d
had before to be able to write it. I think
Johnson did come to school didn't he .....
There is a sense in which the
discussion is moving from an account
of good and skilled practice
to suggesting social
and political
en-
sions that impinge on this.
Recognition of the social identity that
inner city
children have and bring to school is a difficult task for
students whose own personal and educational background is far removed
and yet it is professionally and personally essential. The need for
such awareness
sometimes
comes when as here they experience a gap
between what they have to offer and the
pupil’s willingness or ability
School A 7.5.82 P26 oi
Eng
..... One thing last
weekend I noticed on
the Duke of Edinburgh
awared thing I've been
on two of them, one with the V years and one
with the IV years and the first time X com-
mented
that
and
there were 4 West
this
Indian
2 West
Indian kids
there were
і eirl and
12
the
quiet
boys .
that.
one West Indian
, very much in
boy who came
the
I thought this is
so
just sort of
shadow of
twice now
mentioned
and
boy .
was
the
kids
only
And
very
while
seen
they said a lot of
the West Indian kids
scene - it's not the
thing to do - ιi
kind of activity .
a kind
ιiddle class
She may take the problem to be one of making
the activity more attrac-
tive but this is limited unless
it goes with knowledge and understand
ing of pupils* personal and cultural background. In her Option course
work English takes this up in looking at adolescent biographies gener-
ated in and out of the classroom as a way into knowing and understanding.