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ERIC Number: EJ1300932
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-6820
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The Legacy Imprint of Apprenticeship Trajectories under Conditions of Segregation and "Apartheid" in South Africa
Gamble, Jeanne
Journal of Vocational Education and Training, v73 n2 p258-277 2021
In many countries, the contours of skills formation systems are traced back to early struggles over control of apprenticeship. This paper uses a curriculum lens to examine two distinctive policy moments in the history of formal apprenticeships in South Africa and to trace the legacy imprint of direct and indirect race-based exclusion as well as the imprint of educational deprivation in social class terms. The policy trajectory shows how an apprenticeship curriculum that had to cater for White working-class youth with low educational credentials led to a steady erosion of the formal knowledge component of the curriculum in favour of practical workplace experience. Alongside race-based exclusion, a neglect of science-based knowledge emerges as a lasting curriculum legacy of apprenticeship trajectories under conditions of segregation, Apartheid and their colonial precursors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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