Chapter 1 Prologue -- Chapter 2 An epistemological perspective of occupational/vocational and academic subject pedagogies: Coda to the conceptual framework of the occupational pedagogy of teachers: Mark II -- Chapter 3 A comparison of occupational education of teacher educators’ knowledge and pedagogy -- Chapter 4 A comparison of TVET teachers and teacher educators’ professional identities -- Chapter 5 A systematic review of literature of teacher educators’ knowledge -- Chapter 6 Epilogue.

This book offers deep insights into the agencies of teaching—pedagogies, professional identities, and knowledge—in the English further education (FE) sector. The sector’s porous, inclusive, diverse, and prominent features of vocational offers have led to it being overlooked and misunderstood by policymakers. To rectify this misconception and re-emphasise its importance in England’s educational ecology, FE is reframed as a rich, all-encompassing and connected sector. It proposes a new language of educational engagement by uniting vocational education and training under a new umbrella term: occupational education (OE). OE intersects work, teaching, and learning across pre-university, higher education, and professional education. A new system is provided that maps lifelong learning, irrespective of age, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, or station in life. The key audience is students, teachers, teacher educators, institutional managers, policymakers, and academics.