Apprenticeship Education vs. School-based Vocational Programmes in the Swedish Upper Secondary School – different paths to the same goal?

Apprenticeship education is formally a part of the Swedish upper secondary school VET. Half of the time in apprenticeship education is workplace-based, compared to a minimum of approximately 12,5 percent in the regular VET-programmes. However, the apprenticeship education follows the same curriculum as the school-based VET. This way of organizing the apprenticeship education seems to build upon a failure to recognize differences in ways of knowing, such as knowing that and knowing how, or that the situated character of learning in two different practices, school and workplaces, probably will lead to development of different aspects of vocational knowing. The purpose of this article is to explore differences in the vocational knowing afforded in the Swedish apprenticeship education compared to school-based VET in the Child and recreation programme