ABSTRACT
The narrator – from a Theatre in Education group called Bush Telegraph who has welded this group of truanting adolescents into a team of actors in four weeks – steps forward to give his colleague behind the shroud time to placate the ten adolescents. After considerable negotiations with the Manpower Services Commission, the scheme was approved as a Project Based Work Experience Scheme for one year with funding for two supervisors and ten young people. In Fit for Work Colin and Mog Ball discuss the value of work experience in school as a mechanism for preparing young people for the world beyond. They are rightly critical of many such schemes, where the 'work' element is either trivial, menial, or even non-existent, and they argue instead for a system that embraces work as an integral part of the educational process, and makes the concept of Lifelong Education, as presented by E. Gelpi, a credible possibility.
