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APPENDIX IV
Institutional Constraints
To focus on constraints and pressures within which the innovation existed
and with which staff personally had to contend
is to look in the opposite
direction froι
Il
the empirical section of the thesis which looked at what
was developed by staff and students.
What follows is an indication of what went on alongside these developments
to give a balance
provide a context and point to the politics of
innovation.
Politics will be in evidence in relation with committees in
the Institute and the University.
In the thesis the potentiality of the
innovation for learning by staff and students is emphasised and other
learning is suggested by the involvement in the political sphere of
decision
making and the latter is referred to here.
The constraints refer to the period of the establishment of the course
and will be concerned with three specific though related spheres of
First, those located in
influence which surrounded the innovation.
the innovating institution - the Institute о
Education;
second
those
located in the University of London and, third
those which have to do
with general practices and ideology in teacher education.
The
influences from each sphere may have positive or negative effects upon
the
innovation
in both the
short and long term.
The early influences on the development of the Alternative Course are
discussed in the Report made on the course to the Institute and to the