Research literature was reviewed for the joint purposes of assessing the state of the art in vocational teacher education research and attempting to determine whether vocational teacher education has escaped its ancillary status and, through significant research, moved toward becoming an intellectual field. Most of the research studies deal with…

In this paper, several issues related to the problem of transfer of training are set forth. The technique of frame analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, is presented as a way of bringing coherence to the formulation of problems related to transfer of training. Key concepts in Goffman's argument are explained, showing how those concepts pertain to…