Handbook of Vocational Education and Training: Handbook of Vocational Education and Training , 2 Teile

Section 1. The changing world of work.- Section 2. Skills for sustainable human development.- Section 3. Planning and reforming skills systems.- Section 4. Private training markets.- Section 5. Vocational learning.- Section 6. Competency and excellence.- Section 7. Measuring learning and instructional performance.- Section 8. Supporting learners.- Section 9. VET Teacher/trainer education.

Simon McGrath is the UNESCO Chair in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. He has published on a number of aspects of education-development links, especially at the post-school level. He is researching theories of vocational education and training for human and sustainable development. He is engaged in a wide range of policy advisory work on skills and development, most recently for the UNDESA, UNESCO and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Martin Mulder is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the Education and Competence Studies Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. Prof. Mulder's primary field of interest is competence-based vocational and professional education. He edited the bookCompetence-Based Vocational and Professional Education. Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education (Springer, 2017) and (co)authored and edited numerous other books and articles in peer-reviewed scientific research journals in the fields of vocational education, higher education, teacher education, science and engineering education, technology-enhanced learning, and management and mainstream educational research. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. Competence for Rural Innovation and Transformation. The work of Prof. Mulder has been widely acknowledged. Being founder of the Vocational Education and Training Network of the European Educational Research Association, he was elected its Honorary Member. In 2016, he received the European Vocational Education Researcher Award from the European Commission. Prof. Mulder has served on a number of editorial committees of international journals, and held various positions in national, European, American and world educational research associations.

Joy Papier is a Professor and the Director of the Institute for Post-School Studies in the