1st Edition

Emancipation and Vocational Education: Skills, Bildung and the Subject

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book challenges the economistic neoliberal rationale for vocational education by drawing critically on emancipatory theoretical approaches, especially a body of German theory neglected almost entirely by contemporary accounts.  Capitalising on the current under-theorisation of vocational education, this book revisits established perceptions of the role of vocational education under... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Foundations of skill and subjectivity

Chapter 3. From the Enlightenment to vocational Bildung: Theories in context

Chapter 4. An emancipatory theory of vocational Bildung

Chapter 5. Emancipatory or economistic? Vocational education in the West after Blankertz

Chapter 6. Settler VET and postcolonial possibilities

Chapter 7. Conclusion: An emancipatory logic for VET in the crisis of neoliberalism

 

Biography

Bill Esmond is Professor of Professional Education and Training at the University of Derby, UK. 

Johannes K. Schmees is Associate Professor at the University of Derby, UK, and Visiting Professor at Berlin University of Technology, Germany.

Volker Wedekind is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.