ABSTRACT
Surely this dramatic monologue could never be delivered in a post-16 classroom? Not to students over the age of 16, in the ‘post-compulsory’ stage of their education, who are highly motivated, committed and enthusiastic in the study of their chosen programme and who present little of the challenging behaviour evident in secondary schoolchildren? We must remember that only a summer holiday separates the schoolchild of Year 11 from the serious student in Year 12, and tutors in school sixth forms and colleges assume that, with no intervention whatsoever, those students have been magically transmogrified into independent, autonomous learners.
