The Architecture of Innovative Apprenticeship

This volume reflects on the criteria of a modern dual vocational education and training system building on the apprenticeship tradition, the management and governance of dual VET systems, and the standards and procedures for developing occupational curricula. Apprenticeship, the oldest type of vocational education, has experienced a revival in recent years. Many new countries are newly adopting apprenticeships based on what is termed the dual system of vocational education, so called because it combines workplace learning in an enterprise with classroom teaching in an educational institute.
The key questions that are taken into consideration for evaluating the operation of dual VET systems and for the formulation of standards are the following: How can the coordination between the vocational education and training (VET) systems and employment systems be improved? What are the conditions for promoting employment opportunities for young people, thus facilitating the transition from school to work? What are the effects on the competitiveness of companies? How can rewarding careers be made accessible for a large segment of the population?

List of contents

1. From School into Apprenticeship: Pathways for a Successful Transition.- 1.1 Relationship between Potential Recruits from VET and HE - Case Studies from Germany, England and Switzerland, Ute Hippach-Schneider, Tanja Weigel.- 1.2 Exploring Intermediate Vocational Education and Training for 16-19 Year-olds in Germany and England, Jeremy Higham, H.-Hugo Kremer, David Yeomans.- 1.3 Apprenticeship, Pathways and Career Guidance: A Cautionary Tale.- Richard Sweet.- 1.4 No Choice - No Guidance? The rising demand for career guidance in EU neighboring countries and its potential implications for apprenticeships, Helmut Zelloth.- 1.5 How can Governance, Private Sector and Work Based Learning promote Labour Market Relevant Training in Developing and Transition Countries?, Manfred Wallenborn.- 1.6 A Renaissance for Apprenticeship Learning? - And its Implications for Transition Countries, Sören Nielsen.- 1.7 Work-based Learning in China, Joanna Burchert, Ludger Deitmer, Xu Han.- 2. Competence Measurement and Development .- 2.1 Occupational Identity in Australian Traineeships: An initial Exploration, Erica Smith.- 2.2 Competency-Based Training in Australia: What happened and where might we "capably" go? Lewis Hughes, Len Cairns.- 2.3 Measuring Occupational Competences: Concept, Method and Findings of the COMET project, Felix Rauner, Lars Heinemann, Ursel Hauschildt.- 2.4 Occupational Identity and Motivation of Apprentices in a System of Integrated Dual VET, Ursel Hauschildt, Lars Heinemann.- 2.5 Innovative Models of more Interactive Cooperation of VET Schools and Enterprise in China, Zhiqun Zhao, Zishi Luo, Donglian Gu.- 2.6 Developing Complex Performance through Learning Trajectories and re-creating Mediating Artefacts.- Michael Eraut.- 2.7 Conceptual Change Research in TVET, Waldemar Bauer.- 2.8 Experiential Learning Assessment and Competence Development for a Second Career: The case of alternating training pprogrammes for professional promotion,Philippe Astier, Lucie Petit.- 3. Towards an Open TVET Architecture: Why European and National Qualification Frameworks do not suffice.- 3.1 Differences in the Organisation of Apprenticeship in Europe: Findings of a Comparative Evaluation Study, Felix Rauner, Wolfgang Wittig.- 3.2 Implementing the EQF: English as distinct from Continental Bricklaying Qualifications, Michaela Brockmann, Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch.- 3.3 Trends, Issues and Challenges for EU VET Policies beyond 2010, Pascaline Descy, Guy Tchibozo, Jasper van Loo.- 3.4 'Evidence' about 'Outcome Orientation' - Austrian experience with European policies, Lorenz Lassnigg.- 3.5 Successful in Reforming the TVET System and Shaping the Society: The Example of the Mubarak Kohl Initiative, Edda Grunwald, Bernhard Becker.- 3.6 Accelerating Artisan Training: A Response to the South African Skills Challenge, Salim Akoojee.- 3.7 The Role of Social Partners and the Status of Apprenticeship in Turkey, Özlem Ünlühisarcikli, Arjen Vos.

About the author

Felix Rauner ist Professor am Institut Technik und Bildung der Universität Bremen.

Summary

Benefiting from the support and involvement of two major international research networks, this collection features the latest research findings in TVET. Members of INAP, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship, and VETNET, the Vocational Education and Training Network, have contributed key research findings to this detailed survey of the field. Featuring the inclusion of the internationally recognized memorandum released in April 2012 by the INAP Architecture Apprenticeship Commission, the volume covers a wealth of issues relating to technical and vocational education and training, including exemplar architectures such as successful school-to-work transitions, competence assessment and development models, and governance, including the role of stakeholders. The book provides many opportunities to explore in depth the scholarly debate on TVET, as well as to learn from positive international experiences. It aims to inform the practice of TVET professionals as much as the decision making of administrators.

Additional text

This publication admirably demonstrates the technical and bureaucratic obstacles to advancing skills and resolving the current dilemmas of youth school to work transitions – and for those new to the field illustrates the political complexities of seemingly neutral vocational educational systems and framework classifications.
The editors have compiled a compelling vision that despite diverse national formulations, innovative apprenticeships have the potential to mitigate the current dramatic levels of international youth unemployment and a template for future research in transitional and developing economies.
Sylvia Hammond in E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES

Report

This publication admirably demonstrates the technical and bureaucratic obstacles to advancing skills and resolving the current dilemmas of youth school to work transitions - and for those new to the field illustrates the political complexities of seemingly neutral vocational educational systems and framework classifications.
The editors have compiled a compelling vision that despite diverse national formulations, innovative apprenticeships have the potential to mitigate the current dramatic levels of international youth unemployment and a template for future research in transitional and developing economies.
Sylvia Hammond in E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES

Product details

• Assisted by: Ludger Deitmer (Editor), Urse Hauschildt (Editor), Ursel Hauschildt (Editor), Felix Rauner (Editor), Felix Rauner et al (Editor), Helmut Zelloth (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2012
• EAN: 9789400753976
• ISBN: 978-94-0-075397-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 643 g
• Illustrations: X, 346 p.
• Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects; Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; B, Education, Vocational Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Professional education, Professional and Vocational Education