Abstract The chapter introduces the occupation and vocational education as a
subject of research and their research framework, which include the emergence
and origins of didactic approaches and concepts of vocational teaching and
learning. The author reviews the history of research on vocational disciplines and
vocational didactics at universities and the relation between research on occupation
and vocational education and its methods in contemporary historical retrospect.
Areas, bounds, and working fields of vocational pedagogy, vocational
didactics, and vocational disciplines are also analyzed. The author further predicts
the development opportunities and prospects for the subjects of vocational
didactics and occupation research on vocational education.