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The role of learning support: A trefoil catalyst?
Author(s) -
KELLY MARY
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.1991.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - trefoil , analogy , curriculum , quality (philosophy) , field (mathematics) , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , engineering ethics , epistemology , philosophy , engineering , mathematics , art , visual arts , pure mathematics
Recently, this journal has carried a weighty debate on the roles of special educational needs co‐ordinators. As a practitioner, Mary Kelly sees this in rather simpler terms. Her analogy, for example, with the trefoil plant is delightfully intriguing. She identifies the changing role with three aspects: curriculum, skills and attitudes. Not surprisingly she places more emphasis on the latter. Support, she crucially maintains, is not just about doing but about being. In these harsh times it is nice to be occasionally reminded that quality is more important than quantity in this field.