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Formation of Apprenticeships in the Swedish Education System: Different Stakeholder Perspectives
[journal article]
Abstract 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 reformmaking
process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. Th... view more
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 reformmaking
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.... view less
Keywords
vocational guidance; Sweden; educational policy; secondary education upper level; course of education; vocational education; vocational education school; apprenticeship
Classification
Secondary Education Sector Upper Level
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
initial vocational education and training; school-based apprenticeships; activity theory
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 3-24
Journal
International journal for research in vocational education and training, 2 (2015) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.2.1.1
ISSN
2197-8646
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works