ABSTRACT

Skills training in the informal economy, known as informal apprenticeship, caters to the skills needs of millions of young people in the Global South. While it predates the development of formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems, it was not until the ‘discovery’ of the informal economy in the 1970s that attention was drawn to this important system of training. Despite the importance of informal apprenticeship, it is striking that there has been a paucity of academic research on education and training and the informal economy this millennium. Whilst there have continued to be papers written by staff of international development agencies, academic accounts are now rare. This paper explores the role of informal apprenticeship in the human development of informal apprentices. It presents new data on informal apprenticeship and engages with earlier academic and international policy papers on informal apprenticeship, in an attempt to open new ways of theorising and understanding informal apprenticeship.

摘要

非正规经济中的技能培训，称为非正规学徒，满足了全球南方数百万年轻人的技能需求。虽然它早于正规技术和职业教育与培训 (TVET) 系统的发展，但直到 20 世纪 70 年代“发现”非正规经济之后，人们才开始关注这一重要的培训系统。尽管非正规学徒制很重要，但令人惊讶的是，本世纪关于教育和培训以及非正规经济的学术研究却很少。虽然国际发展机构的工作人员继续撰写论文，但学术报告现在很少见。本文探讨了非正式学徒制在非正式学徒的人类发展中的作用。