Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives
The article explores the major features of the Swedish Government’s new initiative - a school based Upper Secondary Apprenticeship model. The analyses are guided by activity theory. The analysed texts are part of the parliamentary reform-making process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. The...
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European Research Network Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
2015-04-01
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| author | Ingela Andersson Gun-Britt Wärvik Per-Olof Thång |
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| description | The article explores the major features of the Swedish Government’s new initiative - a school based Upper Secondary Apprenticeship model. The analyses are guided by activity theory. The analysed texts are part of the parliamentary reform-making process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. The analyses unfold how the Government, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (SN) construct Upper Secondary Apprenticeship as an activity in the 21st century. The conclusion highlights how three traditional aspects of Swedish initial vocational education and training (IVET) collide in the formation of Upper Secondary Apprenticeship – a curriculum of labour market based apprenticeships, a curriculum of school based IVET, and ill-defined curriculums of school based apprenticeships. The emerging Upper Secondary Apprenticeship curriculum foreshadows multifaceted educational trajectories where the learning targets, and not the responsibility for the student’s learning are displaced from the school to the workplace setting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95f487407e85452da760c3ce7f0de0ce2022-12-22T00:26:24ZengEuropean Research Network Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training2197-86382197-86462015-04-012110.13152/IJRVET.2.1.1Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder PerspectivesIngela Andersson0Gun-Britt Wärvik1Per-Olof Thång2University of Gothenburg, Faculty of EducationUniversity of Gothenburg, Faculty of EducationUniversity of Gothenburg, Faculty of EducationThe article explores the major features of the Swedish Government’s new initiative - a school based Upper Secondary Apprenticeship model. The analyses are guided by activity theory. The analysed texts are part of the parliamentary reform-making process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. The analyses unfold how the Government, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (SN) construct Upper Secondary Apprenticeship as an activity in the 21st century. The conclusion highlights how three traditional aspects of Swedish initial vocational education and training (IVET) collide in the formation of Upper Secondary Apprenticeship – a curriculum of labour market based apprenticeships, a curriculum of school based IVET, and ill-defined curriculums of school based apprenticeships. The emerging Upper Secondary Apprenticeship curriculum foreshadows multifaceted educational trajectories where the learning targets, and not the responsibility for the student’s learning are displaced from the school to the workplace setting.https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/IJRVET/article/view/56initial vocational education and trainingschool-based apprenticeshipspolicy formationactivity theoryeducational trajectoriesupper secondary school |
| spellingShingle | Ingela Andersson Gun-Britt Wärvik Per-Olof Thång Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training initial vocational education and training school-based apprenticeships policy formation activity theory educational trajectories upper secondary school |
| title | Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives |
| title_full | Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives |
| title_short | Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives |
| title_sort | formation of apprenticeships in the swedish education system different stakeholder perspectives |
| topic | initial vocational education and training school-based apprenticeships policy formation activity theory educational trajectories upper secondary school |
| url | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/IJRVET/article/view/56 |
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