Emerging teachers undergoing initial teacher education programmes and given the opportunity to engage in a teaching placement in special provisions settings consistently report that they find the experience transformative. Over eight years, informal and often unprompted data emerged which ‘insisted’ upon reporting and suggested that the special school placement was transformative and differed in some significant features from other placements. There are themes of emerging teachers’ confidence in their ability to include, awareness of and changes to attitudes towards inclusion, creative teaching methods (including altered approaches towards differentiation) and child‐centred approaches contrasted with what was perceived to be a more restrictive mainstream curriculum. Alterations could be argued to include changes at the level of identity, attitude and in the acquisition of skills. Arguments are presented for the inclusion of such a placement as a required element within initial teacher education.
Much of the area which at present constitutes the German Federal Republic was, in the past, agriculturally backward. Since 1949, West German agriculture has made considerable technical progress, but still suffers from severe structural problems. These problems of small farm size and fragmentation have their origin in the 18th century, when farmers obtained control of the land without the enclosure movement experienced in Britain, and no serious programme of structural reform was undertaken before 1939. In recent years, West German agriculture has increased production very greatly and at the same time reduced its labour force at an unprecedented rate. Moreover, a substantial programme of structural reform was initiated in the 1950's. As a result, farmers' incomes have risen at roughly the same rate as other incomes. In the last few years, West German agriculture has come under increasing pressure as a result of economic developments and the competition of other Common Market countries. It is clear that a more radical programme of structural reform is needed.
Since housing, distorted by council provision and rent regulation, is very difficult to find, unemployed workers stay at home rather than move to areas where they might find jobs. Rent restriction thus increases unemployment as well as homelessness, but there was little in the Conservative manifesto to show that the new Thatcher administration will do anything more than acknowledge the problem.
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