The name is absent

its actuality as opposed to its intentions.

The task remained to isolate the course’s regular and important features,
to relate them to underlying factors in both staff intentions and
established practices and to examine the relationship between procedures

established and students’

process described by Grace (1979)

to make some form of empathetic ’entry'

world of another through close acquaintance with the
context and texture of their discourse.

enabling the observation to be more directed

It led directly to the choice of the school group as the focus for further

Equally they were affected by factors both internal and external to the
institution which would require a focus in the subsequent stages.

A further decision taken here was to work across three groups rather than

to ensure that the data was generated from different situations within
the innovation. The school group within the Institute was taken as a basic
focus since it was considered that in that arena what Parlett and Hamilton
refer to as the ’higher order’ aspects of the college environment would

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