This project used controversy and contained conflict (argument) as part of its methodology to raise to raise students’ critical awareness. The tcacher was cast in the role of neutral chairperson, to avoid partisan teaching and the charge of indoctrination. A problem arose in the treatment of racism, where it was felt that neutrality was inadmissible. This lay behind the adoption of a deliberately committed
Aim to educate for the elimination of racial tensions and ill-feeling within our society - which is and will be multi-racial -by undermining prejudice, by developing respect for varied traditions,and by encouraging mutual understanding, reasonableness and justice.
Although this project includes elements of the public educator aims,it does not fully address the social change and political aims. Elsewhere, educators have proposed public educator curricula addressing the full range of aims, for example, as(urban education)(Hall, 1974;Raynor,1974; Raynor and Harden,1973; Zedin, 1974). A clear statement of the aims and principles of one such project is provided by Zimmer.