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Things like your subject

area, you can

say I hated history when I was a kid or I loved
Maths when I was a kid, why doesn’t this kid

like Maths.

I mean you hate Maths, right.

No, I don’t hate Maths ..... certainly

I mean I know that the analysis of my own school
days and stuff like that was very important in
my thinking about teaching actually and why I
was put off and scared to death by the whole
idea of Maths but would liked to have done Maths,
you know, would have liked to have been efficient

and I think, but why was that?

I think I can

pinpoint very clearly that it was to do partly
with the teacher and the teaching method .....

The way I feel about that is like in

ill

English group, you know at the Institute there
is this whole thing about multi-cultural

educat ion.

We’re all being encouraged to think

about it and for me, I mean, when we were doing
these exercises ..... putting us in the position

of kids at school which makes you remember what

it’s like.

I mean for me I went to school in

Glasgow when I moved here from the States and
it’s really helpful for me to remember that

because I think it makes me

It

to kids in the same position.

ucħ more sympathetic
I think it’s good.

The way ɪ felt in that group is that everybody
is being very theoretical about it and it should

be

our experience and I wish there were more

black people in the Institute.

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I mean the impression they got of me at

the time.

Obviously when you’re a teacher you’re

seeing a troublemaker in a different context to

saying I was a troublemaker in that situation.
So what I like to think like is how was this
recognized as a problem in the first place and

how was it dealt with.

Because things when you’re

a child, you’re one of say 3θ people in a class
and what you may consider someone's sticking
a ruler in you back, now that may not even be
noticed by a teacher, how did you bring it to
the attention of the teacher, and what did the
teacher do about it.