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.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Foundations of skill and subjectivityChapter 3. From the Enlightenment to vocational Bildung: Theories in contextChapter 4. An emancipatory theory of vocational BildungChapter 5. Emancipatory or economistic? Vocational education in the West after BlankertzChapter 6. Settler VET and postcolonial possibilitiesChapter 7. Conclusion: An emancipatory logic for VET in the crisis of neoliberalism

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.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Foundations of skill and subjectivityChapter 3. From the Enlightenment to vocational Bildung: Theories in contextChapter 4. An emancipatory theory of vocational BildungChapter 5. Emancipatory or economistic? Vocational education in the West after BlankertzChapter 6. Settler VET and postcolonial possibilitiesChapter 7. Conclusion: An emancipatory logic for VET in the crisis of neoliberalism

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.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Foundations of skill and subjectivityChapter 3. From the Enlightenment to vocational Bildung: Theories in contextChapter 4. An emancipatory theory of vocational BildungChapter 5. Emancipatory or economistic? Vocational education in the West after BlankertzChapter 6. Settler VET and postcolonial possibilitiesChapter 7. Conclusion: An emancipatory logic for VET in the crisis of neoliberalism