Workbook
The Apprentice's Professional Identity Workbook
What the Credential Teaches You and What Only the Job Does
You are learning the craft from people excellent at it who have no idea who you are becoming.
For the apprentice learning the craft from people excellent at it who cannot help you figure out who you want to be as a professional — who needs to name the craftsperson they are becoming.
The Name It First Experience
Apprenticeship teaches the craft. It does not teach who you are becoming. You are learning from masters who may never have examined their own professional identity. This workbook names the craftsperson you are becoming — what you are absorbing by default versus choosing deliberately. The output is not the credential. It is Your Apprentice Identity Document — a signed statement.
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Sample questions
- What kind of tradesperson are you becoming — and is that a choice you're making, or is the culture just deciding for you?
- What are you actually learning from the people who are teaching you — the skills, yes, but also the attitudes and habits?
- What aspects of the trade culture do you want to carry forward — and what will you do differently?
Research basis
Lave and Wenger on communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation / Dreyfus on the novice-to-expert progression / Schon on reflective practice in professional development.
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