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The Subject Committee rejected the proposal as shown in the following
extract:
REPORTED: (1) The Subject Committee had considerable
reservations about the proposal presented to them,
and
was
concerned
that
no
rationale
for
the
alternat і ve
course had been
submitted.
proposed
It was
concerned
that
the
proposed alternative
course would
enable students,
by careful selection of the subject of
their essays on General Educational Theory
Principles
and Methods of Teaching and a Curriculum Option,
to
cover only a
very
narrow area of educational theory;
that the proposal to allow students to select either a
Curriculum
Il
Option or a Foundation Option struck at the
fundamental
principles
of
the
PGCE
course
which
it
considered should not be changed without a much wider
discussion
course .
the
purpose
and
function
of
the
PGCE
(2) The Subject Committee gave considerable thought to
ways in which it might be possible to
proposals of the Instutute while maintaining the present
accommodate the
balance and principles of the PGCE course.
It was the
opinion of the Committee that the work proposed for the
alternative
course might appropriately be
included as
one
of the
Instutute,
it by means
the balance
Curriculum Options offered by the Central
and that students could then be examined on
of a 6,000 word essay.
This would leave
of
the
require
would
no
amendment
commend
this
PGCE
to
course
unchanged and would
Regulations.
suggestion
The
Committee
most strongly
to
the
Institute .
(3) However
the Subject Committee suggested that the
Institute
might wish
to
explore
the
possibility
of
while
submitting an alternative detailed proposal which
including the work envisaged in the original proposal
would
ensure
that
students
received
training
in
Educational Theory comparable with that which obtained
under the existing PGCE Regulations,
and that students
were adequately examined in General Educational Theory
Principles and Methods of Teaching
a Curriculum Option and Practice.
a Foundation Option
In
this
case
Subject
Committee
would
be
prepared to
consider
the
a
proposal to permit slightly shorter pieces of work being
submitted by students for the Foundation and Curriculum
Options .
RESOLVED:
the
views
the
Subject Committee in
Education be forwarded to the Institute of Education.
(Extract from the Minutes of the Subject Committee in
Education
3 Nov. 1977)