Technical and Vocational Teacher Education and Training in International and Development Co-Operation Models, Approaches and Trends

Frank Büning is Full Professor for Technology and Education, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Humanities and chairs the Centre of Teacher Education at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He is a widely experienced international Technical Vocational Education and Training researcher. Currently, he is involved in a number of international Technical Vocational Education and Training research and development projects in Asia (China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia) and is engaged in UNEVOC activities as spokesman of the Magdeburg UNEVOC-Centre for Sustainable Development.

Georg Spöttl is director of the Steinbeis Center InnoVet and Director of the Centre of Technology, Work and TVET (C-TAB), University Bremen since 2015 and Honorary President of the TVET Research Community in Germany (GTW). He was Emeritus from a Full Professorship at the University of Bremen (until 2015), and chairman of the Department Work-Processes and TVET and director andboard member of the Institute for Technological Education (ITB). He is a board member of The New York Academy of Science . For more than 20 years he has been Visiting Professor at UTHM (University Tun Hussein Onn) in Malaysia. Since 2020 he advises the TVET research centre (MyTVET) at UTHM. His areas of special interest are curriculum development for Industry 4.0, qualification research, didactic and teacher training and advisory assignments for government units.

Harry Stolte graduated with University Diploma in the field of Didactics of Technical Vocational Education and Training and since 1984 he is holding a PhD in Technical Vocational Education and Training. The main focus of his work—integrated in international TVET cooperations—is oriented on subjects as Standards and Curricula Development, Development of Teaching and Learning Media, as well as TVET Teacher Training and on different areas of Technical Vocational Education and Training related to Sustainable Development. For about 30 years Dr. Stolte has been acting in the area of Technical Vocational Education and Training within international cooperation with developing countries, countries in transition and industrialized countries, responsible for the design, formulation, implementation and evaluation of international Technical Vocational Education and Training projects with priority focus on capacity building and competence development. He has main experiences in countries in Asia, South-East Asia and Eastern Europe.