The Future of Vocational Education and Training in a Changing World

1. Introduction
Matthias Pilz

2. Challenges and Opportunities for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the United States
Christopher Zirkle, Lindsey Martin

3. Youth Apprenticeships in Canada: Context, Structures and Apprentices’ Experiences
Wolfgang Lehmann

4. Re-conceptualising Vocational Education: The Transition from Powerful to Useful Knowledge
Roy Canning

5. The Transition from Vocational to Higher Education from the Perspective of Higher Education Admission Staff
Hubert Ertl, Geoff Hayward, John McLaughlin

6. Development of TVET in China: Issues and Challenges
Weiping Shi

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

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

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

10. Trends and Challenges of Vocational Education and Training in Korea
SeungIl Na

11. Vocational Education and Training System (VET) in India
Rengan Venkatram

12. India's National Skills Development Policy and Implications for TVET and Lifelong Learning
Madhu Singh

13. Challenges for Evidence-based Policy in European Education and Training
Torsten Dunkel

14. Comparative Analysis of VET Curricula in Europe
Dietmar Frommberger, Léna Krichewsky

15. VET Qualifications versus Bachelor Degrees? Recruitment at the Intermediate Qualification Level – Case Studies from Germany, England and Switzerland
Ute Hippach-Schneider, Tanja Weigel

16. Perceptions of Science and Technology in Developed and Developing Countries: Challenges for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Frank Bünning, Claudia Kalisch

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

18. Reforming the VET System via National Qualification Frameworks? AComparison of Germany and Austria
Thomas Deißinger

19. Vocational Education and Training in Poland During Economic Transition
Sławomir Kurek, Tomasz Rachwał

20. Best for the Bright? The Pros and Cons of the New Danish Apprenticeship Model
Vibe Aarkrog

21. Pre-vocational Education in the Curriculum and Its Teaching Practice. AStudy of Seven European Countries
Susanne Berger, Matthias Pilz

22. Are Vocational Qualifications Vocational?
Jim Gallacher, Robert Ingram, Fiona Reeve

23. Apprenticeship: Between Theory and Practice, School and Workplace
Paul Ryan

24. Demarcations Between Vocational and Academic Education and How to Overcome Them
Felix Rauner

25. Varieties of Competence: European Perspectives
Jonathan Winterton

26. Potentials for Change in Education and Training through Interactions between Credit Systems and Qualifications Frameworks
Isabelle LeMouillour

27. Patterns of Recruitment and Induction in Selected European Countries: First Results of aFeasibility Study
Phillipp Grollmann, Marthe Geiben

28. Vocational Education, Poverty and Power
Ute Clement

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

30. International Comparative Research into Vocational Training: Methods and Approaches
Matthias Pilz

Keywords: Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education