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Technologies of Learning - Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Regime (Paperback)
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Technologies of Learning - Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Regime (Paperback)
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The importance of training and education is on the increase. While
the production of 'human capital' is seen as a motor for a
competitive economy, skills and expertise proof to be necessary for
social mobility. Remarkably, in conceiving modern forms of
'apprenticeship', several mechanisms from the acien regime, seem to
return. The difference between public and private initiative is
disappearing, education and training is being confused, and in
order to acquire generic skills as flexibility, communicability,
self-rule, creativity and so on, youngsters have to learn 'in
context'. Even for maths, scholars now talk of 'situated learning'.
Before the advent of a formal schooling system, training took place
on the shop floor, under the roof of a master. The apprentice not
only worked but also lived in his master's house and was thus
trained and educated at the same time. In cities, this system was
formally complemented by an official apprenticeship system,
prescribing a minimum term to serve and an obligatory masterpiece
for those who wanted to become masters themselves. Traditionally,
historians see this as an archaic and backward way of training, yet
this book's aim is to show that is was instead a very flexible and
dynamic system, perfectly in tune with the demands of an early
modern economy. In order to understand it fully, however, we should
differentiate the informal training system organised via a 'free
market' of indentures on the one hand and the institutionalised
system of craft guilds on the other. In Antwerp, early modern
guilds had a project of 'emancipating' their members. They didn't
simply produce certain skills, but through a system of quality
marks defended the honour of craftsmen. This is the difference with
current practices. By representing hands-on skills as superior,
guilds supplied a sort of symbolic capital for workers. Bert De
Munck is lecturer at the University of Antwerp and member of the
Centre for Urban History. His research focuses on the history of
the guilds, vocational training and social capital.
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