Contributor Biographies Acknowledgments Chapter One Introduction to the Handbook: Vocational Education and Training: Theory, Practice and Policy for a Complex Field of Inquiry David Guile and Lorna Unwin Part One: VET as an evolving concept Chapter Two VET, Expertise and Work: Situating the Challenge for the 21st Century David Guile and Lorna Unwin Chapter Three Vocational Education and the Individual Stephen Billett Chapter Four VET, HRD and Workplace Learning: Where To From Here? Paul Hager Chapter Five Does Vocational Education Still Need the Concept of Occupation? Alison Fuller Chapter Six Knowledge, Competence and Vocational Education Leesa Wheelahan Part Two: The Political Economy of VET Chapter Seven Political Economy of Vocational Education and Training Damian Oliver, Serena Yu and John Buchanan Chapter Eight The Politics of Vocational Training: Theories, Typologies, and Public Policies Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch Chapter Nine The Industrial Relations of Training and Development Mark Stuart Chapter Ten Measuring Performance in VET and the Employer''s Decision to Invest in Workplace Training Samuel Muehlemann Chapter Eleven Excluded Within The Inclusive Institution: The Case Of Low-Skilled Low-Waged Security Employees Soon-Joo Gog Part Three: Arrangements for VET Chapter Twelve The Contested Evolution and Future of Vocational Education in the United States Brian Durham and Debra D. Bragg Chapter Thirteen The Future of Vocational Education in Canadian Secondary Schools Alison Taylor Chapter Fourteen The Interrelation of General Education and VET: Understandings, Functions and Pedagogy Vibe Aarkrog Chapter Fifteen The Sustainability of the Dual System Approach to VET Thomas Deissinger Chapter Sixteen Duality and Learning Fields in Vocational Education and Training: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessment Matthias Pilz and Bärbel Fürstenau Chapter Seventeen VET Teachers and Trainers in Context Kevin Orr Part Four: VET as a Developing Practice Chapter Eighteen The Learning Potential of Boundary Crossing in the Vocational Curriculum Arthur Bakker and Sanne Akkerman Chapter Nineteen Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments in Vocational Education and Training Carmela Aprea and Alberto A. P. Cattaneo Chapter Twenty VET as Lifelong Learning: Engagement with Distributed Knowledge in Software Engineering Monika Nerland and Crina I. Damsa Chapter Twenty-One Innovative Work Based Learning for a Responsive VET: Lessons from Dutch Higher VET Aimée Hoeve, Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink, Loek Nieuwenhuis Chapter Twenty-Two Capturing the Elusive: How Vocational Teachers Develop and Sustain Their Expertise Janet Hamilton Broad and Ann Lahiff Part Five: Challenges for VET Chapter Twenty-Three The Challenges VET Faces Through its Intersection with Social Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Race Karen Evans Chapter Twenty-Four Contribution of Vocational Education and Training in Skilling India Tara Nayana and Sanath Kumar Chapter Twenty-Five Vocational Education and Training in Economic Transformation in China Zhiqun Zhao and Yunbo Liu Chapter Twenty-Six Working with Historical, Cultural and Economic Logics: The Case of Vocational Training in Argentina Claudia Jacinto Chapter Twenty-Seven The Evolution of Learning Regions: Lessons from Economic Geography for the Development of VET Laura James.