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This programme was recorded in two schools in Belfast, one a Catholic Girls Secondary Intermediate and the other a Boys' County Grammar attended almost exclusively by Protestants. In each school, a... group of fourteen to sixteen year-olds and their teacher discuss a newspaper article 'The case against integrated schools'. Some of the pupils have already looked at bias in historical documents through work in the Schools Council History 13-16 Project (1976, Edinburgh, Holmes McDougal). The teachers are now helping them to look at the techniques being used in a newspaper article on an issue directly affecting their own lives - whether Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland should be educated in the same schools. The pupils look at bias in the text and then discuss the-issues raised in the article. Through this general discussion they begin to become aware of the prejudices which they themselves - bring to reading the text. When this programme was made in November 1976, one of the schools had already lost three pupils who had been killed during that school term. The programme is introduced by Janet Maybin of the Course Team.
This programme was recorded in two schools in Belfast, one a Catholic Girls Secondary Intermediate and the other a Boys' County Grammar attended almost exclusively by Protestants. In each school, a... group of fourteen to sixteen year-olds and their teacher discuss a newspaper article 'The case against integrated schools'. Some of the pupils have already looked at bias in historical documents through work in the Schools Council History 13-16 Project (1976, Edinburgh, Holmes McDougal). The teachers are now helping them to look at the techniques being used in a newspaper article on an issue directly affecting their own lives - whether Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland should be educated in the same schools. The pupils look at bias in the text and then discuss the-issues raised in the article. Through this general discussion they begin to become aware of the prejudices which they themselves - bring to reading the text. When this programme was made in November 1976, one of the schools had already lost three pupils who had been killed during that school term. The programme is introduced by Janet Maybin of the Course Team.
| Module code and title: | PE231, Reading development |
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| Item code: | PE231; 05 |
| Recording date: | 24-02-1977 |
| First transmission date: | 09-07-1977 |
| Published: | 1977 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:24 |
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| Producer: | David Seligman |
| Contributor: | Janet Maybin |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bias; Prejudice |
| Master spool number: | TLN08950H128 |
| Production number: | TLN08950H128 |
| Available to public: | no |
