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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

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