Vocational Learning: Innovative Theory and Practice

Book Overview

Preface.- Introduction.- Editors.- Authors/Contributors.- PART A - THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF VOCATIONAL LEARNING.- Chapter 1: Innovations in Theory and Practice.- Chapter 2: Social Partnerships in Learning: Connecting to the Learner Identities of Disenfranchised Regional Learners.- Chapter 3: Where the VET System meets the Performativity of Vocational Learning: Borderlands of Innovation and Future Directions.- Chapter 4: Constructing Learners as Members of Networks.- Chapter 5: Competence as Collective Process.- PART B - CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF VOCATIONAL LEARNING.- Chapter 6: Indigenous.com.- Chapter 7: Vocational Learning by Native Americans in the USA.- Chapter 8: VET Identities in Knowledge Work: Gender and Learning in a Globalised Industry.- PART C - VOCATIONAL LEARNING PRACTICE.- Chapter 9: New Forms of Learning in German VET - Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Results.- Chapter 10: Good practice models for using VET to Address Skill Shortages: A Case Study from Health.- Chapter 11: Vocational Education Pedagogy and the Situated Practices of Teaching Core Skills.- Chapter 12: Literacy in the Learning Careers of Students.- PART D - LOOKING AHEAD.- Chapter 13: Vocational Learning in the Frame of a Developing Identity.- Chapter 14: Mature Adult Learning and Employment.- Chapter 15: Learning in Working Life: Identity and Workplace Learning.- Chapter 16: The Impact of Self-Perception and Vocational Learning.- Chapter 17: Vocational Learning Futures

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400738080
• ISBN13: 9789400738089
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"