When is work a learning experience?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 682-689

  Hamilton, Mary Agnes ^a,b   Hamilton, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a Cornell Youth and Work Program ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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1. Heidi Bowne, former vice president for human resources at the Raymond Corporation, alerted us to the importance of linking youth apprenticeship with a firm's strategic plan and demonstrated how that can be done. Bowne made sure that the program with the young people contributed to a human resource strategy that was, in turn, a part of the firm's strategic plan. The Raymond Corporation was committed to increasing the skill level and flexibility of its employees and designed its apprenticeships to produce highly skilled workers with many competencies.
2. Some programs use the German term Meister (master) for the person who performs this role. We have not done so for several reasons. A German Meister is literally a master of a craft, and only a Meister is formally permitted to train apprentices. In practice, however, most German apprentices spend most of their time working alongside a journey-worker; the Meister functions more as what we call a manager. In the United States, a coach is more like what the Swiss call a Lehrmeister, who is formally trained and certified as an apprentice trainer, but without the courses and examinations that would quality him or her as master of a trade.