Date
19.10.79
Ml
My first impression of the
course was that
it was a ring of Social Science and English with
the Maths running round the outside trying to
find a gap and no co-operation from the other
two disciplines in making a gap.
having to force our way in.
We’re eventually
Date
E2
E4
SSl
El
26.10.79
25
I really don’t wish to sound negative
because I’m actually enjoying the course, believe
it or not.
I mean I think it’s important now
for everybody to kind of explore the different
ideas they’ve got, but it’s just,I was just
commenting on the fact ever since I’ve been here
I’ve been thinking, you know, we’re really getting
off into abstract and it’s not really like that
and I feel like going back to the reality of .....
But the point is that you really can’t
think that what things are really, like because
they’re really like all sorts of things.
You
see, I mean, what they’re really like at C and
they’re really like at D are totally different,
aren't they.
Seems that we’ve got confused between,
we’ve got these ideas that require a lot of social
theories, you know.
We know about educational
inequality and we feel education ought to be
more relevant and
eaningful to pupils that tend
to come out under-achieving and we’re trying
to think of ways that we can improve the situation
as teachers ourselves but yet we keep coming
up against the fact that we’ve got the exam system
and the fact schools do serve to perpetuate
class divisions so on the one hand we’re trying
to change things and yet there again there’s
the reality that we keep banging into which doesn’t
seem to be really clarified at all.
to'say what we’re trying to achieve.
We’ve got
But surely if you don’t have that collision
then nothing ever
happens.