The engine room of educational change: perspectives from Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Further Education (FE)

The contributions to this special issue of Education in the North - The Engine Room of Educational Change - Perspectives from Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Further Education (FE) are as diverse as the field itself. They cover many important and general aspects of VET and FE with examples from Denmark, Finland and Scotland. This special issue provides new and illuminating
insights for those familiar with the field, as well as providing an overview for those who have only recently become interested in the field. The complexity of the pedagogies and contexts that define VET and FE is reflected in the creative and fresh approaches to research in the field represented in this issue. As you read the issue, you could imagine yourself walking around a diverse set of learning spaces. You can glance into the kitchen of a fine Danish restaurant; see a model of hands-on teaching and learning evolve from an askew wall; find out how dogs can help young people sniff out their educational self-confidence; see where colleges sit on the socio-economic maps of Scotland; and let a poem about learning English as a second language in an FE setting inspire your thinking.