APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM AMONG ‘ELEWE-OMO’ IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS, NIGERIA
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Apprenticeship system is a tool for the replication of the workforce and also to keep in existence generational and traditional businesses which ordinarily would have been jettisoned to modernization and civilization. The study focused specifically on apprenticeship system among the Elewe-Omo (traditional pediatrician) with the aim of examining the existing apprenticeship structure. Cognitive apprenticeship theory guided the study. A total of twenty-five (25) respondents consisting of ten (10) masters and fifteen (15) apprentices were purposively selected for in-depth-interview. Data were analysed using content analysis. The result showed that the structure of apprenticeship among the Elewe-Omo comprised its association called Egbe Elewe-Omo, grand masters, masters, and apprentices. Secondly, apprentices undergo internship with other masters and are also examined by a panel of masters before graduation. This makes the apprenticeship system different from other traditional apprenticeship where assessments are conducted during graduation ceremony that may attract external influences. This paper submits that, given the required governmental attention and restructuring, apprenticeship system among the ‘Elewe-Omo’ could serve as a ‘traditional college of medicine’ to encourage those who have the flare traditional medicine and serve as alternative for individuals who could not meet some basic requirement to study modern medicine.
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