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

International Comparisons of China's Technical and Vocational Education and Training System

Zhenyi Guo , Stephen Lamb

China is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon: breakneck industrialization on a scale and at a pace not seen before. It is trying to achieve in just a few decades what Western nations took more than a century to do. The arrival in the country’s cities of tens of...

Rediscovering Apprenticeship

Felix Rauner , Erica Smith

The rediscovery of the value of apprenticeships has been one of the most significant trends in vocational education in recent years, and has prompted an array of research and development projects in countries around the world. In this volume, the renewed interest in the...

Work, Subjectivity and Learning

Stephen Billett , Tara Fenwick , Margaret Somerville

In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift...

International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education

Philipp Grollmann , Felix Rauner

This book provides an insight into the history and current professional situation as well as the practice of vocational teaching across a number of selected countries. As often occurs in comparative studies, there is no ultimate wisdom behind the selection of countries,...

Identities at Work

Alan Brown , Simone R. Kirpal , Felix Rauner

This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing...

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

Meeting Basic Learning Needs in the Informal Sector

M. Singh

In advancing the vision of adult learning articulated at the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V) held in Hamburg in 1997, the UNESCO Institute for Education has been conducting studies on the different areas and dimensions of ‘Adult Learning and...