TVET Teachers: an Endangered Species or Professional Innovation Agents? -- TVET Teachers in Brazil -- China's TVET Teachers and Their Professionalization -- The Professional Situation and Training of Vocational Teachers in Denmark -- Teachers of Technical and Vocational Education in France -- TVET Teachers and Instructors in Germany -- The Development and Present Situation of Vocational and Technical Teachers' Professions in Japan -- Technical and Vocational Education and its Teacher Training in Norway -- Vocational Teachers in Russia -- TVET Teachers and Lecturers in Turkey -- Perspectives on Teachers of Vocational and Technical Education in the UK -- Career and Technical Teaching and Teacher Education in the United States of America.

This book provides insight into the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education across a broad range of countries. It contains studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices in: Germany, Brazil, Denmark, China, France, Japan, Norway, Turkey, the UK and the USA. All chapters follow a common structure making it easy for the reader to focus on specific aspects. An overarching introduction embeds the content of the book into the current global context of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.