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Direct linkLehmann, Wolfgang; Taylor, Alison; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
Most Canadian provinces offer high-school apprenticeships to facilitate students' transitions to skilled work and address employers' concerns about labour shortages. Using interview data with graduates from high-school apprenticeships in Alberta and Ontario, we analyse the impact participation in these programmes has had on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Employment Opportunities, High School Students
Taylor, Alison; Servage, Laura – Journal of Education and Work, 2012
Enhancing school-to-work transitions for youth is a policy focus of secondary schools in most OECD countries. This paper examines one organisation's efforts to encourage high school youth to consider careers in health care by providing them with summer internship opportunities. We adopt an embedded context approach to examine the effects on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Transitional Programs, Career Exploration
Taylor, Alison; Watt-Malcolm, Bonnie – Journal of Education and Work, 2007
This paper examines a high school apprenticeship program with a focus on the opportunities for "expansive" learning within three different contexts: schools, the training centre and worksites. The authors assume that while young people differ in the degree to which they engage in learning within different sites, the institutional arrangements and…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Apprenticeships, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment
Taylor, Alison; McGray, Robert; Watt-Malcolm, Bonnie – Journal of Education and Work, 2007
This article argues that partnerships for vocational education and training (VET) reflect contradictions within capitalism and labour power, and therefore should be analysed within the broader context of industrial and workplace relations. Therefore, in contrast to a consensual model, we posit an understanding of social partnerships as sites of…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Apprenticeships, Work Experience, Vocational Education
Taylor, Alison – Journal of Education and Work, 2005
This paper situates recent school-to-work transition policy in Ontario, Canada, within the historical context of secondary school reform in the past 50 years. This understanding informs our analysis of interviews with representatives from government, business, organised labour, education and partnership brokers. Data suggest tensions between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, Public Policy
Peer reviewedLehmann, Wolfgang; Taylor, Alison – Journal of Education and Work, 2003
Interviews with Alberta government, business, and labor representatives examined three school-to-work initiatives using "new vocationalism" discourse: career and technology studies, registered apprenticeships, and tech prep. Results suggest that vocational education remains focused on employer expectations and workplace socialization rather than…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Discourse Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
