Chapter 1 Vocational Education in the Netherlands

Chapter 2 Vocational and Professional Education and Lifelong Learning

Chapter 3 Transforming Vocational Education: Encouraging Innovation via Public Private Partnerships

Chapter 4 Great Expectations: VET’s Meaning for Dutch Local Industry

Chapter 6 Professional Development of Teachers in Vocational Education

Chapter 7 A Dialogue Worth Having: Vocational Competence, Career Identity and a Learning Environment for Twenty-First Century Success at Work

Chapter 8 The Role and Nature of Knowledge in Vocational Programmes

Chapter 9 Designing Competence-Based Vocational Curricula at the School-Work Boundary

Chapter 10 Pedagogic Strategies for Improving Students’ Engagement and Development

Chapter 11 Work-Based Learning (WBL) in Dutch Vocational Education: Connecting Learning Places, Learning Content and Learning Processes

Chapter 12 Assessment in Dutch Vocational Education: Overview and Tensions of the Past 15 Years

Chapter 13 The Dutch Vocational Education System: Institutional Focus and Transformations