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is there. The tutor’s capacity to identify and provide the necessary
guidance can only develop with adequate knowledge which is provided
within the group.
The student
begins with
a resumee of the relevant points from
the
lecture and
John White’s book (1982) and she goes on to state the
relevance of
these
considerations
for members
of
the school group
and herself.
School A 21.5.82 P2 si
RE What I thought we really ought to go on to
consider in the sense that we are already
discussing School A, rather than sit here
and try and make up our minds about aims was
that we should consider Social Education and
the RE courses and consider whether we think
education is really socialising children and
preparing them for a society or are we educa-
ting them into knowledge and which is most
important - perhaps we ought to consider.
This
is my problem at the moment.
Whether
RE is teaching these virtues, moral attitudes.
In actual fact I don’t think it is - perhaps
we should consider if we are going to teach
moral attitudes that
they are taught across
the
curriculum
in all
Subejcts or in a subject
like social
education - in the very broadest
sense or
RE goes back to purely moral
teaching.
What is interesting here is how an important problem for a particular
subject specialism can be addressed from a wider perspective which
takes account of the rest of the curriculum. This is only possible
when students have such experiences readily available. The discus-
sions that they have observed and participated in about the establish-
ment of the Social Education course have been particularly valuable
here, expressing, as innovative proposals so often do, the explicit
and implicit forms of the curriculum. It is by working close to and
with specific reference to this knowledge that the ieas of educationists
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