Handbook of Fundamentals of Modern Vocational Education

Professor Dr Dr honoris causa Felix Rauner was head of the Research Group on Vocational Training Research (I:BB) at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is Advisory Professor at the East China Normal University in Shanghai and Senior Advisor at the Chair of Technology Didactics at Vocational College (TVD) at the University of Siegen, Germany.

• Shaping work and technology – a cooperation program between science and practice.- Industrial development - the future of skilled work.- Industry 4.0 – and what has become of it.- Automation, work process, maintenance skilled work and curriculum.- Open dynamic professionalism and the concept of core occupations.- European vocational education and training.- Roots of vocational development.- The work-oriented turn in the didactics of vocational education and training.- Enabling people to help shape the world of work.- Purpose-free vocational education in vocational schools.- Multiple competence.- On the constitution of a new educational idea: "Enabling people to shape technology".- The importance of work process knowledge for design-oriented VET.- The company as a place of learning for vocational education and training.