Apprenticeship — The perilous journey from Germany to Togo.

Autor/inn/en	Kempner, Ken; de moura Castro, Claudio; Bas, Daniel
Titel	Apprenticeship — The perilous journey from Germany to Togo.
Quelle	In: International review of education, (1993) 5, S.373-390Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/BF01261589
Schlagwörter	Avant; Cultural Tradition; Economic Climate; Comparative Manner; Cultural Reason
Abstract	Abstract This paper explores the economic and cultural reasons why apprenticeship programmes imported by developing countries typically fail. The authors pursue this inquiry in a comparative manner by addressing experiences in Western Africa and by drawing on the outcomes of apprentice programmes in some industrialised countries. The authors identify major issues that explain why programmes borrowed from the West are so ineffective in Africa. Essentially, the imported apprenticeship programmes are decidedly Western and white concepts that link education to employment through certification and individual ownership of knowledge, and that clash with African cultural traditions. Individual success is central to Western-based programmes, which is opposed to more community-based conceptions of traditional African culture. Because of this inherent mismatch, the authors conclude with several options for developing apprenticeship training in Africa that are more relevant and adaptable to the prevailing cultural, educational and economic climate. They encourage programmes that improve the educational system incrementally and caution against programmes that run counter to the predominant culture.
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Update	2023/2/05