In the preface, author Leslie Button describes his book as being "about the adventures of a large number of people from several walks of life who involved themselves in experimental situations on trust". Button pinpoints the moment when he embarked upon the experiment, recalling how a group of students were unable to remember one of his lectures even though they had taken notes. This insight made Button reappraise his training methods and evolve a system of developmental group work that had students' personal discovery and experience at its core.
His subsequent book is a coherent system of theory and practice that can be used to train youth workers and develop practice with young people. The methods were taught on many full-time qualifying courses and were also developed for part-time workers, including the Brunel Basic Training Scheme that is still in use today.
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