Change and Continuity in Apprenticeship: the resilience of a model of learning
Fuller, Alison and Unwin, Lorna (2009) Change and Continuity in Apprenticeship: the resilience of a model of learning. Journal of Education and Work, 22, (5), 405-416. (doi:10.1080/13639080903454043 ).
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This paper explores the changes and continuities to apprenticeship in England since the 1960s. It argues that apprenticeship is primarily a model of learning that still has relevance for skill formation, personal development and employer need. It also argues that, since the late 1970s and the introduction of state-sponsored youth training, apprenticeship has been transformed into an instrument of State policy, primarily for the control of young people and as part of new legislation to keep them in some form of education or training to the age of 18. In that sense, the holistic notion that apprenticeship had in the past as being a journey within which young people learned to be morally upright citizens as well as acquiring occupational expertise, is being reinvented. Now, however, the State's dominant role has profound implications for the role of employers in apprenticeship and the extent to which skill formation is being underplayed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1363-9080 (print) 1469-9435 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | apprenticeship, skill formation, learning journey, State policy and control |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Education > Lifelong and Work-Related Learning |
| Item ID: | 79754 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:01 |
| Contributors: | Fuller, Alison (Author) Unwin, Lorna (Author) |
| Date: | November 2009 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79754 |
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