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A Little Bullock Goes a Long Way: a college of education simulation exercise
Author(s) -
Cross D
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1978.tb00698.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , subject (documents) , curriculum , politics , psychology , point (geometry) , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , medicine , computer science , library science , political science , law , world wide web , geometry , mathematics
Using two quotations from A Language for Life (HMSO 1975) as his starting point, the author describes a curriculum development simulation exercise involving 70 third‐year college of education students from five subject departments. In it, they were asked to imagine themselves as the newly‐appointed staff of a large comprehensive school due to open in six months' time. Directed by one college staff member and ten English department third‐year students briefed beforehand to act as headmistress and holders of other senior positions of responsibility, they engaged, in two two‐hour sessions spaced a week apart, in the early planning stages of a comprehensive school humanities course. In the first session they were asked, as subject groups, to consider the following questions. As a subject group, how would you describe man's basic needs? What attitudes do you hope will emerge from your subject about religion? About politics and political system? About personal relationships? They were asked to try to write down an agreed answer in not more than 100 words to each question. In the second session, they were given typed copies of the answers from all groups, and asked to try to write a summary of each group of answers in not more than 100 words. In the third session, a week later, they discussed the exercise with staff members who had acted as observers.