| Description | Interview with Mr Gaul and Mr Jago, teachers in the engineering workshop. They describe some of the difficulties in teaching blind students and talk about their previous jobs and the training they undertook to teach machine shop engineering. They talk about how they try to put themselves in the students' position and how that informs their teaching, emphasising that they have to start with the fundamental principles of how machines are designed to instil confidence and self sufficiency in the students. They describe seeing changes in students through learning as they find themselves working in the sighted world, and talk about the necessity of teaching blind students in small groups and the importance of individual training. They describe how students benefit from receiving individual tuition rather than joining apprenticeship schemes and talk about the development of a capacity in students to see themselves doing jobs other than 'blind man's work'. They describe how they explain to students how different machines work and the difficulties they have in understanding some concepts, but discuss how their blind students have a deeper understanding of their work. They talk about the compensations of the job and the stamina required to teach (tracks 1-7).
Total: 18.40 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0776780 |