17
Date
26.10.79
17
16
E3
I think this conflict between theory and
practice or the real world and the ideal world.
I think it’s quite important, you see at the
Institute you look at reality and the real world
as
something you can manipulate.
I mean you
talk about theories and then you put them in,
you say well you can put them in a real context
but what teachers at school are concerned with
is how their school is, you know, what their
rooms are like in school, what sort of conditions
they actually have to work under, now they don’t
see that as changeable.
18
Date
2.11.79
1.12(i)
36
М2
Actually being at school is some thing new
and it’s five years since I left school,
just getting used to school again.
It's
E2
That's one of the things that’s been coming
up in our English group.
I don't know if you
felt it E3∙
I left school nine years ago and
last week we were having this discussion about
reading, kids and all these
Il
emories came flooding
back when I was actually in school and it was
really strange.
It's a totally new experience
of being at school again
I mean I don't
know what my role is here, do you?
Ml
I think what's interesting - I found my
old exercise books and I looked through them
and thought what's new.
It's all there, things
SS3
E2
that I did when I was a kid working out, very
strange but I mean I did terrible, terrible
grammar, awful.
Mistakes I made in Maths.
It's probably a very interesting thing
to do that actually because, no doubt, one has
these romantic views of one's own .....
It’s so strange, really, this, the whole
course .
ean, first you have to adjust to
being here as opposed to being at university
for most people, because most people come straight
from university, right.
Then you have to adjust
to being in a school in the role of a teacher.
Then there’s having to be adjusted to what is
my role in this school and also having to think
about all these issues about education. ‘