Contributors. Introduction. 1. Work Experience and Schooling John Eggleston 2. Two Approaches to Work Experience at Netherhall and Comberton Schools, Cambridge Brenda Hall and Roger Davies 3. A First Experience of Work Experience at Long Road Sixth Form College, Camberley Helen E. Parry 4. Transition Year Programmes in the Republic of Ireland – A Case Study of Newpark School, Dublin John Harris 5. Bush Telegraph – Work Experience in Educational Theatre Margo Gunn, Alastair Moir and Roger White 6. Design and Manufacture Projects at Orangefield School, Belfast Mervyn Douglas 7. A Chemical Company at Ynysawdre Comprehensive School E. T. Naughton 8. Case Studies in Work Experience at Marion High School, South Australia B.D. Hannaford 9. Work Experience in Soviet and East European Schools Nigel Grant. Index.
Biography
John Eggleston was born in Dorchester in 1926 and originally trained as a craft teacher. He taught in schools in the 1950s before winning a Leverhulme Scholarship to the London School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1957. Returning briefly to teaching, he then lectured at Loughborough College of Education, before in 1963 taking up a lectureship and, subsequently, a senior lectureship at Leicester University.
