tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post2711806754042215175..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: My Klients are all busy "doing Petö"Susie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-44548261148385089272009-04-30T16:26:00.000+02:002009-04-30T16:26:00.000+02:00Thanks for your extensive elaboration. Would only ...Thanks for your extensive elaboration. Would only that there were many more such like yourself.<br /><br />On balance, like yourself, I personally incline towards 'clients' rather that participants; like you too I am not altogether sure why.<br /><br />DIRECT RESPONSIBILTY<br /><br />Your suggestion about the importance of the direct responsibility, clearly apparent for any self-employed, private practitioner, offers a good pointer, one that I should like here to take further.<br /><br />If for any reason I hire a professional person to do a job for me, a solicitor for example, I am a client and I have certain expectations as such of the nature of the contractual relationship. I pay, the practitioner provides, if I am not satisfied I go somewhere else or, if things turn out really badly, I seek redress.<br /><br />Yes, I know, the word 'client' has been appropriated (i.e. stolen) by some workers within the public sector, social workers and educational psychologists for example. If you become the 'clent' of such people through the public sector, this is not usually of your own volition. You pay, but only indirectly, through the taxation system. If you don't like what you get, you cannot go elsewhere and there is no redress.<br /><br />Clearly here, this secondary meaning of the word 'client' is altogether different.<br /><br />Even so, and perhaps here I am guilty of being a liberal romantic, there seems a powerful force in the simple market discipline of the word's primary meaning.<br /><br />Because of the way in which so much Conductive Education is funded now around the world, like it or not the implications of the primary meaning of 'client', within the present employment market for conductors' labour, are strong ones for Cnductive Eduation as a whole.<br /><br />The word 'participants' has served well but from now on I shall think, speak and write about 'clients', and emphasise the duties and responsibilities that I think accompany this word. <br /><br />CLIENTS AND CHILDREN<br /><br />I go for the word 'children' too.<br /><br />This gives the beneficiaries of Conductive Education one simple division, between adults and children, with the usual hazy transition area in between.<br /><br />This fits is well with other areas of real life and the obvious reality of two relationships:<br /><br />- with adults, in any role, direct, unmediated;<br /><br />- with children, mediated via parents, guardians or other adults such as teachers.<br /><br />I would still, though, like to know what other people think.<br /><br /><br />Andrew.Andrew Suttonhttp://www.conductive.world.infonoreply@blogger.com