TY - JOUR
T1 - Varieties of institutional renewal
T2 - The case of apprenticeship in the US, England, and Australia
AU - Fortwengel, Johann
AU - Gospel, Howard
AU - Toner, Phillip
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge help from the US Department of Labor with the apprentice start statistics. We thank the JVET editor and the two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments. Also, we are grateful to Chiara Benassi, Marius Busemeyer, Gina di Maio, Lukas Graf, Hugh Guthrie, Hal Hansen, Andreas Kornelakis, John West, Chris Winch, Alison Wolf, Gerhard Schnyder, and Janis Vossiek for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript; and to the audience at the SASE annual meeting in 2019 for feedback, in particular Manuel Nicklich. Howard Gospel would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for the award of the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in connection with this work.
Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge help from the US Department of Labor with the apprentice start statistics. We thank the JVET editor and the two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments. Also, we are grateful to Chiara Benassi, Marius Busemeyer, Gina di Maio, Lukas Graf, Hugh Guthrie, Hal Hansen, Andreas Kornelakis, John West, Chris Winch, Alison Wolf, Gerhard Schnyder, and Janis Vossiek for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript; and to the audience at the SASE annual meeting in 2019 for feedback, in particular Manuel Nicklich. Howard Gospel would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for the award of the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in connection with this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - This study analyses attempts to renew apprenticeship over the last three decades in three liberal market economies—US, England, and Australia. We conceptualise institutional renewal as entailing both revival, or growth in apprentice starts, and extension, or widening its occupational base. The paper contributes to the literature by considering reasons for the attempted renewal and offering an assessment of the outcomes of renewal. It also contributes to research at the intersection of institutional and comparative training literature by developing the concept of institutional renewal and applying it to apprenticeship. It is concluded that in quantitative terms renewal had some success in England and Australia, but the effect of intervention is more uncertain in the US. The paper also identifies a paradox that policies to promote apprenticeships have undermined the quality of training in England and Australia, leading to questions about the sustainability of renewal.
AB - This study analyses attempts to renew apprenticeship over the last three decades in three liberal market economies—US, England, and Australia. We conceptualise institutional renewal as entailing both revival, or growth in apprentice starts, and extension, or widening its occupational base. The paper contributes to the literature by considering reasons for the attempted renewal and offering an assessment of the outcomes of renewal. It also contributes to research at the intersection of institutional and comparative training literature by developing the concept of institutional renewal and applying it to apprenticeship. It is concluded that in quantitative terms renewal had some success in England and Australia, but the effect of intervention is more uncertain in the US. The paper also identifies a paradox that policies to promote apprenticeships have undermined the quality of training in England and Australia, leading to questions about the sustainability of renewal.
KW - Apprenticeship
KW - comparative VET
KW - institutional renewal
KW - liberal market economies
KW - vocational education and training (VET)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075163475&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13636820.2019.1688855
DO - 10.1080/13636820.2019.1688855
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-7879
VL - 73
SP - 71
EP - 94
JO - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
JF - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
IS - 1
ER -
