The Best New Vocational Education eBooks To Read In 2025

Entering educational debate more than 50 years back, the notion of informal learning is still highly relevant today and of specific interest in the context of vocational education and training (VET). Still, we do not know a lot about a wide range of aspects of the topic as well as interactions between formal and informal learning. Defining the latter precisely presents difficulties to the world of research, as the concept itself is characterised by flexibility and openness. This book was initiated to fill a gap in understanding informal learning in the context of training and development.

18 chapters cover a wide range of aspects and different objectives, levels and places of informal learning. Authors from different parts of Europe as well as Japan, Australia, India and Bangladesh have been selected to contribute to the topic from varying country perspectives. As such, this volume makes a unique contribution in exploring informal learning in VET.

This book unpacks the notion of pedagogy in South African technical and vocational education and training (TVET), enhancing the importance of the psychological dimension of learning. The book is premised on the idea that as stories of actual, grounded teaching and learning practices emerge from South African colleges, a coherent picture of pedagogy can be established. With chapters by practising TVET educators writing about their own work, the volume seeks to reconceptualise vocational teaching and learning processes with diversity and inclusivity in mind.

The book will be of interest to students and scholars of TVET and education in South Africa, as well as South African college practitioners and policymakers.

This book traces the foundations for the new interplay between work, technology and education. It shows how the guiding idea of co-designing the world of work has influenced vocational training planning and research, as well as the design of vocational training processes. The author delves into the time period from the beginning of the 1980s to the present day in the 21st century, and showcases knowledge from numerous national and international projects on vocational education. This book serves as a major reference book for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders alike.

The basis of the English translation of this book from its German original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision of the content was done by the author.​.