Between Apprenticeship and Skill
Acquiring Knowledge outside the Academy in Early Modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Wallis (0000-0003-1434-515X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-170 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889719000164 |
| OpenAlex | W2882982028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 52 |
ArgumentApprenticeship was probably the largest mode of organized learning in early modern European societies, and artisan practitioners commonly began as apprentices. Yet little is known about how youths actually gained skills. I develop a model of vocational pedagogy that accounts for the characteristics of apprenticeship and use a range of legal and autobiographical sources to examine the contribution of different forms of training in England. Apprenticeship emerges as a relatively narrow channel, in which the master's contribution to training was weakly defined and executed conservatively. The creation of complementary channels of formal instruction was constrained by cost and coordination problems. When we consider a range of British youths who obtained advanced skills as artisan practitioners (and engaged in invention or pursued natural philosophical interests), we see the importance of individual agency over institutional structures. For these youths, training could involve rejecting apprenticeship, engaging in periods of advanced study, including time in multiple workshops after the end of apprenticeship, and parallel campaigns to access scarce books and communities of scholarship
Agency (philosophy · Apprenticeship · Argument (complex analysis · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Vocational education · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Medicine
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Collective invention
Personal Knowledge
Education in Renaissance England
The Making of the English Middle Class
Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800
Managing Uncertainty and Privatising Apprenticeship
The Capital and the Colonies. London and the Atlantic Economy 1660–1700
Leaving home and entering service
Skills and the Diffusion of Innovations from Britain in the Eighteenth Century
Failure or Flexibility? Apprenticeship Training in Premodern Europe
Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England
Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe
Labor, Law, and Training in Early Modern London
Industrial Training. With Special Reference to the Conditions prevailing in London
Artisanal Knowledge, Expertise, and Patronage in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris
The Body of the Artisan
Skill and the English Working Class, 1870-1914
Enlightened Secrets
Apprenticeship, Health and Social Cohesion in Early Modern London
Corpses, Live Models, and Nature
Rules and reality
Technology as a Public Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor
Literacy and Age in Preindustrial England
Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era
The Business Community in Seventeenth-Century England
A Calendar of Southampton Apprenticeship Registers, 1609-1740
Skill and the English Working Class, 1870-1914
From orphan to artisan
The Making of the English Middle Class
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |