Sir Richard Owen, a Lancastrian, was a prominent biologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, palaeontologist and known for coining the term dinosaur. His expertise in anatomical dissection proved to be one of his biggest assets and aided his career progression at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Zoological Society. Owen's apprenticeship in Lancaster helped him to gain expertise in anatomy...

This paper develops the concept of epistemic apprenticeship as a response to failures among privileged social actors perceive knowledge bases unjustly marginalised groups sources valuable insight. Inspired by Elizabeth Spelman’s reflections on and intersectional feminism, an represents obverse form apprenticeship; one in which socially knowers become apprentices those who do not enjoy equivalen...

PURPOSE This study describes the typical case of problem-based learning (PBL) application at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal and its analysis from the perspective of situated cognition. METHOD I used a typical case study to determine the general model of PBL application and performed my analysis by a global processing of information, against to the conceptual model of si...

Firms participating in the German apprenticeship system do so voluntarily. Previous studies have found that on the average participating rms incur positive net cost from providing skills that appear to be easily transferable across rms. This is at variance with standard human capital theory that predicts that such training will be provided by rms operating in a com-petitve market only if worker...