All of these apprenticeship examples make sense to me, as well as the
arguments and evidence for gains in learning via apprenticeship. However,
I'm puzzled by the use of "cognitive apprenticeship" as a term. It seems
to me that when this term is used, it often comes from a different
tradition than anthropological (or cognitive anthropological) views of
apprenticeship. So, this is a question about how "apprenticeship" gets
used/appropriated in work on cognition, and not directed toward the value
of learning via apprenticeship. This is definitely not to argue that
apprenticeship is just one thing, but at times, in the educational
literature anyway, it is unclear to me what it means and to what extent it
has just become a buzz word.
Kevin