The Wiley handbook of vocational education and training / edited by David Guile and Lorna Unwin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vocational education and training : theory, practice and policy for a complex field of inquiry / David Guile and Lorna Unwin -- VET, expertise and work : situating the challenge for the 21st century / David Guile and Lorna Unwin -- Vocational education and the individual / Stephen Billett -- VET, HRD and workplace learning : where to from here? / Paul Hager -- Does vocational education still need the concept of occupation? / Alison Fuller -- Knowledge, competence and vocational education / Leesa Wheelahan -- Political economy of vocational education and training / Damian Oliver, Serena Yu and John Buchanan -- The politics of vocational training : theories, typologies, and public policies / Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch -- The industrial relations of training and development / Mark Stuart -- Measuring performance in VET and the employer's decision to invest in workplace training / Samuel Muehlemann -- Excluded within the inclusive institution : the case of low-skilled low-waged security employees / Soon-Joo Gog -- The contested evolution and future of vocational education in the United States / Brian Durham and Debra D. Bragg -- The future of vocational education in Canadian secondary schools / Alison Taylor -- The interrelation of general education and VET : understandings, functions and pedagogy / Vibe Aarkrog -- The sustainability of the dual system approach to VET / Thomas Deissinger -- Duality and learning fields in vocational education and training : pedagogy, curriculum and assessment / Matthias Pilz and B¿rbel Fürstenau -- VET teachers and trainers in context / Kevin Orr -- The learning potential of boundary crossing in the vocational curriculum / Arthur Bakker and Sanne Akkerman -- Designing technology-enhanced learning environments in vocational education and training / Carmela Aprea and Alberto A. P. Cattaneo -- VET as lifelong learning : engagement with distributed knowledge in software engineering / Monika Nerland -- Innovative work based learning for a responsive VET : lessons from dutch higher VET / Aimee Hoeve, Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink, Loek Nieuwenhuis -- Capturing the elusive : how vocational teachers develop and sustain their expertise / Janet Hamilton Broad and Ann Lahiff -- The challenges VET faces through its intersection with social class, gender, ethnicity and race / Karen Evans -- Contribution of vocational education and training in skilling India / Tara Nayana and Sanath Kumar -- Vocational education and training in economic transformation in China / Zhiqun Zhao and Yunbo Liu -- Working with historical, cultural and economic logics : the case of vocational training in Argentina / Claudia Jacinto -- The evolution of learning regions : lessons from economic geography for the development of VET / Laura James.