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A further constraint follows from the
capacity of the Alternative Course
to
enable
staff
to
respond to
schools
and
to
students;
to
reduce
fragmentation
and to challenge the split between subject method aπttwork
in education.
This is the effect of sustained participation in work of
this nature at this level
on career patterns.
Institutional careers are
related to departmental
structures whose
main
concerns
are long
established and reflected in courses at a variety of levels and in
comparison
innovation
has a degree of fragility and impermanence.
Each of these
constraints
could be
said should be
faced by those
institutions which are trying to change the
structures
and processes of
their PGCE course.
It has also to be said that at present staff in
institutions who involve themselves in changing the structures and
The
processes will personally face such pressures and constraints.
degree to which the personal and structural dimensions can be related and
resolved through political decisions is the degree to which any permanent
change will be affected and in this process innovation has an important
role to play.