International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. TVET Teachers: an Endangered Species or Professional Innovation Agents?

   • Philipp Grollmann, Felix Rauner

   Pages 1-26

3. TVET Teachers in Brazil

   • Beatrice Laura Carnielli, Candido Alberto Gomes, Clélia de Freitas Capanema

   Pages 27-53

4. China’s TVET Teachers and Their Professionalization

   • Ziqun Zhao, Lianwei Lu

   Pages 55-75

5. The Professional Situation and Training of Vocational Teachers in Denmark

   • Sören P. Nielsen

   Pages 77-96

6. Teachers of Technical and Vocational Education in France

   • Vincent Troger, Wolfgang Hörner

   Pages 97-121

7. TVET Teachers and Instructors in Germany

   • Waldemar Bauer

   Pages 123-158

8. The Development and Present Situation of Vocational and Technical Teachers’ Professions in Japan

   • Moriki Terada

   Pages 159-184

9. Technical and Vocational Education and its Teacher Training in Norway

   • Anne-Lise Høstmark Tarrou, Içara da Silva Holmesland

   Pages 185-204

10. Vocational Teachers in Russia

    • Wolfgang Hellwig

    Pages 205-228

11. TVET Teachers and Lecturers in Turkey

    • Ferdi Boynak, Mustafa Meral

    Pages 229-250

12. Perspectives on Teachers of Vocational and Technical Education in the UK

    • Norman Lucas

    Pages 251-276

13. Career and Technical Teaching and Teacher Education in the United States of America

    • Richard L. Lynch, Sheila K. Ruhland

    Pages 277-307

14. Back Matter

    Pages 309-322

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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, but we hope that we have achieved the gathering of a critical mass of countries, which build a contrastive sample for what currently happens in the field. Despite the fact that a more problem-based approach to the comparison of various aspects of vocational teachers’ professional situation would be more exciting to the reader at the first glance, we decided to take this country-based descriprive approach when making this book. The reason for that is that there is still a fundamental lack of information when it comes to vocational teachers on an international scale. So any more in-depth study into one of the sub-aspects of vocational teaching is not really possible at the moment, since the contextual information is missing. The more substantial volumes on the topic on the international level date back 30 years or more (see also Tables 13.1 and 13.2 in the Appendix, Int- national Labour Organisation, 1964; UNESCO, 1973; Vivian and Hoffman, 1967).

• TVET
• education
• teacher education
• technical and vocational education
• vocational education

• Institut Technik und Bildung, University of Bremen, Germany

  Philipp Grollmann, Felix Rauner

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