The name is absent

sible for the conduct of courses.

They examine the nature of the

supervisory relationship and comment

One possibility is that supervision is used to

counteract the influence of the school, and
therefore help explain the apparent decline in school

effect over the year .....

process as inducing them he will play down Supervison.
If he does not want the student to conform to staff

norms, he will supervise quite closely. The effect
of this would be that to turn out informally-oriented
teachers in a basically formal Grammer school would
require a considerable amount of ’countervailing
influence' through supervision. (1973 Ch6 P58)

This not only suggests that teachers have a considerable amount of

autonomy in their supervision but also that they have considerable

to student attitudes and behaviour (1973 Ch6 P67).

and hence' give an enhanced role to teachers

or whether school and university

giving to teachers power by default.

scheme is examined it is noted that the extension of the tutor role
into the school produced protective constraints on students regarding
the types of teaching they were able to take on. Although students

worked with the teacher-tutors this did not influence the amount

of joint preparation or teaching nor indeed the degree to which students

felt accepted into their teaching practice schools (1973 Ch8 P25).

Here it may be seen that prevailing conceptions of teaching and
training as an individual pursuit die hard and that a long apprentice-
ship and initiation is seen as essential. Equally the structure

in its design to heighten and prolong tension between the institutions.

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