ABSTRACT
In this book, researchers from eleven countries present their perspectives on the evolving nature of apprenticeship. They show how apprenticeship remains a vibrant part of the vocational education and training (VET) systems of many countries and also as a key theme for debate in the development of social theories of learning and identity formation. At the same time, however, they reveal that the concept of apprenticeship is being stretched in different ways in response to social, political and economic challenges, some of which come from within the countries themselves, whilst others bear down from the supra-national level and reflect the pressures of globalisation and the current crisis in global capital.
