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Srabani Maitra; Saikat Maitra; Manish Thakur – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Over the past decade and a half, skill development has assumed critical importance in India's policy discourse. In this context, in 2016, a German inspired vocational training programme called Dual System of Training was adopted by the Indian government to ensure a judicious balance of classroom learning and on-the-job training for young people.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skill Development, On the Job Training
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Ashley E. Maynard; Patricia M. Greenfield; Carla P. Childs; Michael Weinstock – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Analyzing three sets of video data collected in one Maya community, we examined apprenticeship and learning of backstrap loom weaving over three generations spanning the years 1970 to 2012. Like many cultural groups, the Maya of Chiapas are experiencing rapid sociodemographic shifts. Three generations of girls (N = 134) were observed at their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Apprenticeships, Handicrafts
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Víctor Aramburu Cano; Hugo Javier Fuentes Castro; José Antonio Cervantes-Gómez – Cogent Education, 2024
This article examines the adoption and recontextualisation of the German dual apprenticeship model into the Mexican dual apprenticeship model (MMFD in Spanish) through a cultural political economy approach to policy analysis. We analysed the interests, discourse drivers, and resources of involved and absent actors as explanatory variables for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Apprenticeships, Spanish