Relazioni di reciprocità in contesti di work-based training: impilicationi di policy e didattiche per la formazione professionale

ENThe paper targets the lack of conceptual and empiric research of reciprocity in the fi eld of work-based training by exploring theoretical and conceptual aspects of reciprocity in the institutional and educational-didactic relationships of work-based learning and by analysing the features of reciprocity in these relationships in the diff erent institutional types of work-based vocational education and training. There are distinguished specifi cities of the reciprocity in the relationships between institutions, stakeholders and persons involved in the design and provision of work-based training. The features of this reciprocity in the traditional on-the-job training (OJT), “dual” work-based training and emerging work-based training are analysed. This analysis reveals that the intensity and volume of existing settings of inter-institutional cooperation and social dialogue in the fi eld of work-based VET shape the mutual reciprocity relations between the institutions and stakeholders and create the institutional and socio-economic environment for the development of reciprocity in the educational relationships between trainers and apprentices.