The Future of Vocational Education and Training in a Changing World

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Challenges and Opportunities for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the United States

Chapter 3 Youth Apprenticeships in Canada: Context, Structures and Apprentices’ Experiences

Chapter 4 Re-conceptualising Vocational Education: The Transition from Powerful to Useful Knowledge

Chapter 5 The Transition from Vocational to Higher Education from the Perspective of Higher Education Admission Staff

Chapter 6 Development of TVET in China: Issues and Challenges

Chapter 7 Challenges of Vocational Education and Career Education in High Schools in Japan – From the Viewpoint of Career-competency Formation for Transition

Chapter 8 Japan’s Public Youth Training Programs, Enterprise-sponsored Training and the Society of Control

Chapter 9 (Vocational) Education and Social Inequality as Japanese Society Makes the Transition to a ‘Global Society’

Chapter 10 Trends and Challenges of Vocational Education and Training in Korea

Chapter 11 Vocational Education and Training System (VET) in India

Chapter 12 India's National Skills Development Policy and Implications for TVET and Lifelong Learning

Chapter 13 Challenges for Evidence-based Policy in European Education and Training

Chapter 14 Comparative Analysis of VET Curricula in Europe

Chapter 15 VET Qualifications versus Bachelor Degrees? Recruitment at the Intermediate Qualification Level – Case Studies from Germany, England and Switzerland

Chapter 16 Perceptions of Science and Technology in Developed and Developing Countries: Challenges for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Chapter 17 Georg Kerschensteiner and the Plea for Work-Oriented and Vocational Education – Germanys’ Educational Debates in an Industrial Age

Chapter 18 Reforming the VET System via National Qualification Frameworks? A Comparison of Germany and Austria

Chapter 19 Vocational Education and Training in Poland During Economic Transition

Chapter 20 Best for the Bright? The Pros and Cons of the New Danish Apprenticeship Model

Chapter 21 Pre-vocational Education in the Curriculum and Its Teaching Practice. A Study of Seven European Countries

Chapter 22 Are Vocational Qualifications Vocational?

Chapter 24 Demarcations Between Vocational and Academic Education and How to Overcome Them

Chapter 25 Varieties of Competence: European Perspectives

Chapter 26 Potentials for Change in Education and Training through Interactions between Credit Systems and Qualifications Frameworks

Chapter 27 Patterns of Recruitment and Induction in Selected European Countries: First Results of a Feasibility Study

Chapter 28 Vocational Education, Poverty and Power

Chapter 29 Bridging the Gulf Between the World of Work and the World of Learning: Vocational Education and Training in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 30 International Comparative Research into Vocational Training: Methods and Approaches