Overview
Discusses trends for initial and continuing vocational learning across all settings
Examines how new technologies are opening up new areas of work and revolutionizing learning
Explores the role of private training markets
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The Changing World of Work | Editors: Margarita Pavlova and Salim Akoojee
Skills for Sustainable Human Development | Editor: Lesley Powell
Planning and Reforming Skills Systems | Editor: Robert Palmer
Private Training Markets | Editors: Michael Gessler, Larissa Freund and Susanne Peters
Vocational Learning | Editors: Karen Evans and Natasha Kersh
Competence and Excellence | Editor: Kirby Barrick
Measuring Learning and Instructional Performance | Editor: Esther Winther
Supporting Learners | Editor: Joy Papier
VET Teacher/Trainer Education | Editor: Volker Wedekind
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The Changing World of Work
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Skills for Sustainable Human Development
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. The Institute undertakes training and development of adult educators and TVET college lecturers, post-schooling research, and policy analysis in the vocational, adult education, and higher education sectors. Prof. Papier has been active in education, policy and development for about 25 years, as a school-teacher, university teacher educator, trainer, development worker and researcher. She holds the degrees of M.Phil. (University of the Western Cape), M.Ed. (Harvard University, USA) and Ph.D. (Education Policy) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her current research interests include TVET teacher education, TVET policy and development, vocational curricula policy, workplace and institutional cultures. She has published on vocational and general teacher education in several academic journals, presented at conferences and on public panels, participates in national government task teams and is an external examiner for numerous postgraduate dissertations in the field of post-schooling. Prof. Papier was recognized for her work in education by the prestigious South African Mail & Guardian Book of Women in 2011.
Rebecca Suart is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her research interests include further education systems; VET for adult learners; women as lifelong learners; and VET skills for human development. Prior to her research career, Rebecca worked for 15 years as a practitioner in the delivery and management of VET in the UK Further Education sector. During this time Rebecca chaired a sector skills competition council, devising standards and organizing national competitions to find UK entrants for World Skills events.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Vocational Education and Training
Book Subtitle: Developments in the Changing World of Work
Editors: Simon McGrath, Martin Mulder, Joy Papier, Rebecca Suart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94532-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Education
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94531-6Published: 29 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94532-3Published: 13 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 1830
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Engineering/Technology Education, Learning & Instruction, International and Comparative Education