The Conference of Ministers of Education has defined those subjects at colleges and universities as vocational disciplines that can be chosen by future teachers at vocational training colleges. The existence of vocational disciplines is known only to those members of colleges and universities that are concerned with the education of teachers for these colleges. How else, one might ask, could such a degree course be structured that focuses on enabling teacher students to work in a particular job area with its related jobs? On closer inspection, however, conceptual uncertainties become apparent in certain details as well as other considerable problems relating to vocational education and its teaching. This collection of essays with contributions by more than 70 distinguished authors from vocational education gives a clear, systematic picture of the complex field of knowledge of vocational disciplines. It gives a detailed treatment of the tasks and problems involved in the establishment of vocational disciplines. The editors' aim in this handbook is to start a debate about the tasks, functions, essence and meaning of vocational disciplines.weiterlesen