The name is absent

Date

19.10.79

Ml

My first impression of the

course was that

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.