262 Chapter 8 texts about subjects that are not yet very important to him, so it takes more time for him to understand them. This little boy with that nine out of ten for his presentation could be at the highest level, right? No, he can’t, because we look at it in a narrow way. It is another one of those examples where I don’t want to say that this boy should go to the highest level per se, but that it falters, that it constantly falters, and that it makes me rebel and that I actually just want to say to the students: It’s not bad if you feel that rebellion, but hold on to that. What this teacher wishes is for trainee teachers to learn to hold on to their pedagogical ideals, even when the system directs all of their energy towards other things. The extra attention paid to longing and even a pedagogy of longing that the conversational community decided on in relation to the basic attitude, including character and heart, should be viewed from this perspective. The conversational community wishes for character formation in students that makes them humble when possible but fierce when necessary. As a conclusion, it can be stated that when the conversational community paid attention to the basic attitude, it looked for an attitude of service to both child and society, situating these elements as strong ideals in front of trainee teachers—to care for and to stand by. What is meant exactly will become clearer through the analysis of the four theological voices on attitude formation as heard throughout the conversational community’s meetings. 8.2 FOUR THEOLOGICAL VOICES ON BASIC ATTITUDE FORMATION In the analysis of the minutes and transcripts, the topic of basic attitude formation can be approached along the lines of the code ‘basic attitude’ or of the broader code family surrounding it. The code itself appears a total of 62 times, while the broader code family, which includes a total of 31 codes such as ‘attention’, ‘hope’, ‘longing’, ‘love’ and ‘mission’, appears no less than 358 times. While the code ‘basic attitude’ does not appear in the reports of all the meetings (six are missing), the broader code family appears in all of the reports starting from the second, only being absent from the first warmup meeting. The topic of basic attitude formation is, therefore, present throughout the whole process that the conversational community engaged in. Notwithstanding, its appearance reveals a clear outlier in the report of the 11th meeting, where the code ‘basic attitude’ is counted 28 times (roughly half of its total appearances), while the broader code family scores 69 appearances in that same meeting.
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