All ebooks in the collection "Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects" - Springer

Craft Shaping Society

Lindy Joubert

This book focusses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society. It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and...

Technical and Vocational Teacher Education and Training in International and Development Co-Operation

Frank Bünning , Georg Spöttl , Harry Stolte

This book deals with teacher training for vocational education and training. In individual chapters next to the positions of relevant international organizations, donors and development banks, it also covers selected countries in their ways of shaping of Technical...

The Value of TVET in Advancing Human Development and Reducing Inequalities

Randa Hilal

This book examines the contribution of Vocational Education and Training to advancing human development and reducing inequality. It uses the example of Palestine as case-study rich in multi-layered inequalities, some of which are experienced in the region and worldwide,...

Integrative Learning of Theory and Practice

Mariana Orozco

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date. It introduces a new way of looking at the...

Integration of Vocational Education and Training Experiences

Sarojni Choy , Viveca Lindberg , Gun-Britt Wärvik

This book draws on experiences from a range of vocational education systems in different nation states and re-examines the purpose of providing experiences outside educational institutions; the kinds and extent of those experiences; and efforts made to ensure the...

Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia

Collectif

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The volume presents papers on vocational education, project-based learning and science didactic approaches, illustrating with sample cases, and with a special focus on Central Asian states. Thematically embedded in the...

Education and Skills for Inclusive Growth, Green Jobs and the Greening of Economies in Asia

Shanti Jagannathan , Rupert Maclean , Brajesh Panth

This book presents an overview of the main research findings and case studies concerning education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies. Focusing on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam, it discusses government and business...

Training for Work in the Informal Micro-Enterprise Sector

Hans Christiaan Haan

In Sub-Sahara Africa, the sector of informal micro-enterprises (IMEs) is already employing a large share of the labour force in both urban and rural areas. This study reviews the ways in which the owners and workers of IMEs have acquired their vocational and management...

Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited

Jon Lauglo , R. Maclean