What if the further education and skills sector realised the full potential of vocational pedagogy?

In recent government documents about vocational education a favourite quotation is: “Learners must demand high quality pedagogy which will necessitate that stronger links are built between employers, teachers and teaching”. Imagine thousands of apprentices rising up from their labours to march on the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in London shouting “Pedagogy! We want better pedagogy!” In this chapter Bill Lucas explores a world in which we truly focused on pedagogy, rather allowing conversation all too easily to turn to funding formulae, new kinds of institutions, reformed qualification systems, different apprenticeship specifications and the like. All of these have value but none is as essential as the high quality teaching and learning methods which sit at the heart of all excellent vocational education. For it is pedagogy which is the beating heart of the vocational body politic.