International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education

Abstract

This publication examines the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in several different countries from around the world. It presents studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices in the following countries: Germany, Brazil, Denmark, China, France, Japan, Norway, Russia, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Each chapter covers the historical development of the TVET profession for that country, the current situation and teacher education arrangements. The chapters are as follows: TVET teachers: an endangered species or professional innovation agents? / Philipp Grollmann and Felix Rauner; TVET teachers in Brazil / Beatrice Laura Carnielli, Candido Alberto Gomes and Clelia de Freitas Capanema; China’s TVET teachers and their professionalization / Ziqun Zhao and Lianwei Lu; The professional situation and training of vocational teachers in Denmark / Soren P. Nielsen; Teachers of technical and vocational education in France / Vincent Troger and Wolfgang Horner; TVET teachers and instructors in Germany / Waldemar Bauer; The development and present situation of vocational and technical teachers’ professions in Japan / Moriki Terada; Technical and vocational education and its teacher training in Norway / Anne-Lise Hostmark Tarrou and Icara da Silva Holmesland; Vocational teachers in Russia / Wolfgang Hellwig; TVET teachers and lecturers in Turkey / Ferdi Boynak and Mustafa Meral; Perspectives on teachers of vocational and technical education in the UK / Norman Lucas; Career and technical teaching and teacher education in the United States of America / Richard L. Lynch and Sheila K. Ruhland.