The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal for VET-related research. This journal provides full open electronic access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the science community and the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and the further development of expertise in the field of Vocational Education and Training (understood in a wide sense and also known as e.g. TVET Technical Vocational Education and Training, Professional Education and Training, Career and Technical Education, Workforce Education). All articles can also be downloaded from the IJRVET Homeage: http: //www.ijrvet.net. IJRVET covers all topics of VET-related research from Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) to Workforce Education and Continuing Vocational Education and Training (CVET). The Yearbook includes all electronic articles published in 2017. Vol 4, No 1 (April): (1) Ensuring Curriculum Relevance in Vocational Education and Training: Epistemological Perspectives in a Curriculum Research Project, by Hilde Hiim; (2) Supporting Vocational Students' Development of Preventive Behaviour at Work: A Phenomenological Analysis of Teachers' Experiences, by Alexandra Lecours & Pierre-Yves Therriault; (3) Developing Schemas for Assessing Social Competences among Unskilled Young People, by Vibe Aarkrog & Bjarne Wahlgren; (4) Entrepreneurship Education at Indian Industrial Training Institutes - A Case Study of the Prescribed, Adopted and Enacted Curriculum in and around Bangalore, by Lea Zenner, Kumar Kothandaraman & Matthias Pilz. Vol 4, No 2 (august): (5) Finnish WorldSkills Achievers' Vocational Talent Development and School-to-Work Pathways, by Laura Pylväs & Petri Nokelainen; (6) Humanistic Elements in the Educational Practice at a United States Sub-Baccalaureate Technical College, by Peng Chen & Carsten Schmidtke; (7) Three Types of Tightrope Dance in the Comeback Process, by Mette Bunting, Torill Aagot Halvorsen & Geir H Moshuus; (8) The Lack of Collaboration Between Companies and Schools in the German Dual Apprenticeship System: Historical Background and Recent Data, by Michael Gessler. Vol 4, No 3 (Special Issue): (9) Going Back-to-School in Vocational Education and Training: Introduction, by Louis Cournoyer, Geneviève Fournier & Jonas Masdonati; (10) Why Returning to VET? Results of a Qualitative Comparative Study about English and German Car Mechatronics, by Erika Edith Gericke; (11) Decision-Making Rationales among Quebec VET Student Aged 25 and Older, by Louis Cournoyer & Frédéric Deschenaux; (12) The Reasons Behind a Career Change Through Vocational Education and Training, by Jonas Masdonati, Geneviève Fournier & Imane Zineb Lahrizi; (13) When Work Comes First: Young Adults in Vocational Education and Training in Norway, by Anna Hagen Tønder & Tove Mogstad Aspøy; (14) VET Again: Now as a VET Teacher, by Henriette Duch & Karen E. Andreasen. Vol 4, No 4 (december): (15) Short-Term Benefits, Long-Term Harm? Alternative Training to Apprenticeships in Norway, by Tove Mogstad Aspøy & Torgeir Nyen; (16) Towards the Compatibility of Professional and Scientific Learning Outcomes: Insights and Options in the Context of Competence Orientation, by Volker Rein; (17) Enhancing Social Competence for Disadvantaged Youth in Pre-Vocational Education: Model Development Through Design-Based Research, by Kristina Kühn; (18) Resource Utilisation and Curriculum Implementation in Community Colleges in Kenya, by Peter Changilwa Kigwilu & Winston Jumba Akala; (19) Book Review: Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis, by Larissa Freund & Michael Gessler.
About the Author: The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) is the official journal of VETNET (founded in 1996), the European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (umbrella organisation: EERA European Educational Research Association), supported by CINTERFOR (founded in 1963), the Centro Interamericano para el Desarrollo del Conocimiento en la Formacion Profesional / Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (a technical service of OIT Organización International del Trabajo / ILO International Labour Organization) and IRNVET (founded in 2013), the International Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (umbrella organisation: WERA World Education Research Association). The OJS Open Journal System is hosted at the Data Center of the University of Bremen, Germany. Editorial Board: Karen Evans, United Kingdom; Michael Gessler, Germany (Editor-in-Chief); Johanna Lasonen, USA; Margaret Malloch, Australia; Martin Mulder, Netherlands. Editorial Advisory Board: Vibe Aarkrog, Denmark; Salim Akoojee, South Africa; James Avis, United Kingdom; Oguz Barboroglu, Turkey; Magdolna Benke, Hungary; Jean-Louis Berger, Switzerland; Harm Biemans, Netherlands; Len Cairns, Australia; Enrique Deibe, Uruguay; Trine Deichman-Sorensen, Norway; M Hamed Dif, France; Per-Erik Ellström, Sweden; Xiao Feng, China; Peter Filo, Slovakia; Dietmar Frommberger, Germany; Benedicte Gendron, France; Philipp Gonon, Switzerland; Philipp Grollmann, Germany; Victor Henandez-Gantes, USA; Falk Howe, Germany; Lazaro Moreno Herrera, Sweden; Md Yunos Jailani, Malaysia; Christian Helms Jorgensen, Denmark; Franz Kaiser, Germany; Richard D. Lakes, USA; Fernando Marhuenda, Spain; Joerg Markowitsch, Austria; Evode Mukama, Rwanda; Christof Naegele, Switzerland; Petri Nokelainen, Finland; Hiroshi Numaguchi, Japan; Nikitas Patiniotis, Greece; Matthias Pilz, Germany; Muchlas Samani, Indonesia; Barbara Stalder, Switzerland; Marja-Leena Stenström, Finland; J.S. Sodhi, India; Vidmantas Tutlys, Lithuania; Ozlem Unluhisarcikli, Turkey; Etsuo Yokoyama, Japan; Zhiqun Zhao, China.