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Apprentice in a Changing Trade (Hc)

Apprentice in a Changing Trade (Hc)

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Developm

General EducationGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1617354120
ISBN13: 9781617354120
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Mar 16 2011
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is a result of a major research project in Switzerland that brings together the fields of Education and Socio-Cultural Psychology. It is focused on how culture is involved in very concrete educational practices. The reader is invited to follow the research group in a Swiss technical college that trains young people in precision mechanics during a period of major technological change: the arrival of automated manufacturing systems. This transition in the trade is an opportunity to explore the educational and psychological challenges of vocational training from a perspective inspired by activity theory and the consideration of social interactions and semiotic or other technical mediations as crucial to the formation of professional identities and competencies.

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