| Description | Interview with Jim Pickles, a teacher at a college for blind children in Worcester. He continues to discuss his teaching, particularly his research and experimental work in constructing scientific and mathematical apparatus for people with visual impairments. He talks about the limitations of braille, his research into techniques for the teaching of blind children, and his view that blind children need to be taught to draw from an early age. He talks about the programme of experimental teaching he has introduced for drawing and graphic design, using adapted apparatus and the verbal imagery necessary to convey ideas, and the mixed reactions of other teachers to his project (tracks 1-4).
Track 5: silence 0.18 mins
Jim Pickles continues to talk about his experimental work, the development of a programme to teach surface representation to blind children, using embossed line diagrams as part of the teaching process, and translating them into terms understood by sighted people. He discusses the resentment held by many blind people towards the sighted world partly becuse they are encouraged to adopt sighted concepts, the segregation of blind and sighted children in education, the administrative and practical difficulties involved in the integration of blind children in the mainstream education system and describes the benefits and disadvantages to pupils in being taught by specialised teachers in schools for blind children. He talks about an experiment for integration being carried out in three schools in Liverpool and the views of other teachers on blind spatial sense (tracks 6-8).
Total: 31.51 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 534B0395780 |