Vickerstaff, Sarah (2007) I was just the boy around the place: what made apprenticeships successful? Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 59 (3). pp. 331-347. ISSN 1363-6820. (doi:10.1080/13636820701520369) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38088)
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Abstract
This article seeks to add to current policy and debate on apprenticeships and youth transitions more widely by reflecting back upon the historical experience of the apprenticeship model. The research comprises in?depth interviews with 30 people who undertook apprenticeships in a range of trades in Great Britain in the period 1944–1982. The discussion focuses upon the socialisation aspects of apprenticeship and concludes that a key feature of good apprenticeships in the post? war period was that they offered a sheltered and extended period in which the young person was able to grow up and become job?ready. Reconstructing the social, industrial, familial and community conditions that made this possible is very difficult in the contemporary period, although further work in oral history has considerable potential.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/13636820701520369 |
Additional information: | Special Issue: Perspectives on vocational education and training in post?war England |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2014 11:21 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38088 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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