Guile, D; Lahiff, A; (2021) Rethinking the connective typology of work experience: The challenge of learning through internship. In: Kyndt, E and Beausaert, S and Zitter, I, (eds.) Developing Connectivity between Education and Work. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxford.

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The chapter explains why it is necessary to reformulate Connective Typology of Work Experience (CTWE), which was originally formulated in the mid-1990s, as the Connective Typology of Learning through Work Activity: Work Experience and Internship (TLWE:WE&I). The chapter explains that the CTWE was a product of its time and was underpinned by the normative assumption that young people made the transition to permanent employment, and that work experience provided relevant skills. This glossed over the existence of: (a) internal labour markets, in other words, freelance work; and (b) the emergence of internship as a very vehicle from work experience to facilitate young people’s transition to permanent and freelance work. The chapter explains that although internship is different from work experience, it is nonetheless possible to use the concept of work activity to reformulate the CTWE as the TLWE:WE&I. In doing so, the chapter explains why internship is a constitutive mode of work activity from which people develop occupational-specific knowledge and skills, whereas work experience is a preparatory mode of work activity from which people develop occupational-relevant knowledge and skills. The chapter illustrates why this difference by drawing on case study evidence from the Creative and Finance sectors in the UK.

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