This article introduces a Bauhaus design apprenticeship for first-semester German as a means of integrating multiple literacies and disciplines. In light of the need for interdisciplinary models of the multiliteracies framework in introductory-level language curricula, a collaboration with the campus makerspace can enhance the humanities' critical…

When designing a reading intervention, researchers and educators face a number of challenges related to the focus, intensity, and duration of the intervention. In this paper, we argue there is another fundamental challenge--the nature of the reading outcome measures used to evaluate the intervention. Many interventions fail to demonstrate…

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Reading Apprenticeship professional development program on several teacher and student outcomes, including effects on student learning. A key part of the study was the use of an enhanced performance assessment program, the Integrated Learning Assessment (ILA), to measure student…

SOME 4000 YEARS AGO BABYLONIAN CODE OF HAMMURABI MADE EXPLICIT PROVISIONS THAT ARTISANS TEACH THEIR CRAFTS TO YOUTH. THE CRAFTS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN A FAMILY TRADITION IN MORE RECENT TIMES. THE INDENTURE AND THE MASTER-APPRENTICESHIP RELATIONSHIP WAS ADOPTED BY CRAFTSMEN WHO CAME FROM EUROPE. SUCH FAMOUS AMERICANS AS PAUL REVERE AND BENJAMIN…

For thousands of years men have transferred skills from one generation to another by apprenticeships. In Egypt, Greece, Rome, Europe, and finally in the United States apprenticeships became an accepted practice. In the United States in the 1700's poor boys 14 years or younger were often indentured to masters who agreed to teach them a trade. They…

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…

An exploration was made of several types of adult education within the Confederate States of America during 1861-65, and of socioeconomic and cultural background factors. The following adult education activities were identified: apprenticeship training on farms and in factories; extension training of army physicians through discussion groups,…

The system of legal clerkships in early Massachusetts is described from the writings of John Adams and others. Ideally, the clerkship placed the student in an environment of law where education was a total and many faceted experience. In reality, the student endured many difficulties and spent most of his time copying papers. (LBH)

The growth of libraries and of technical education in the middle of the 19th century led to the organization of Melvil Dewey's School of Library Economy in 1887. The School offered a technical course to replace the apprenticeships then in favor. Its curriculum persisted as the model for library education through 1920. A break with the early form…

The early apprentice, his work regime, and his directive to travel are discussed. Apprentices had both a learning and a working relationship with their masters and they performed tasks that often brought them into contact with the adult world. The wanderjahre, the practice of requiring apprentices to wander, is described. (MLW)

A brief history of the development of child welfare services in America from indenture to day care is given, together with an account of the changing social attitudes that influenced this history. The negative and positive aspects of present practices are also discussed. (MS)

Nursing's future includes efforts to elevate nursing to professional status and to colleagueship with other health professionals. Nurses, it is suggested, must enhance their political power in order to change repressive laws that prevent nurses from having direct access and accountability to health-care consumers. (MLW)

The Administrator of the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT), U.S. Department of Labor, presents an overview of the Federal government's role in apprentice training, Federal apprenticeship legislation and programs, labor standards and their administration, and the 40 years of BAT, established in 1937 by the National Apprenticeship Act. (MF)

The purpose of this study was to compile a history of trade and industrial education for the state of Wisconsin by tracing the development of the significant aspects of this phase of vocational education since the establishment of the first trade school in 1906. Major chapter headings are: (1) Background and origin of Trade and Industrial…