Enabling Vocational Lecturer Capacities Towards Sustainable Human Development: Towards Radical Revisioning Kathija Yassim, Neville Rudman, and Lucky Maluleke Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 2 The Current TVET Landscape ................................................................... 3 Contextual Realities .............................................................................. 5 The Intersection of a Humanizing Pedagogy and a Capability Approach ...................... 7 Toward Radical Revisioning of Curriculum ..................................................... 8 An Overview of the TVET Journey .......................................................... 8 Programme Development ..................................................................... 10 Toward Cultivation of a Progressive Vocational Pedagogue ................................. 11 Engaging with Vocational Identity and a Vocational Pedagogy ............................. 14 An Africanized, Decolonized, and Responsive Curriculum ................................. 15 Conclusion ........................................................................................ 16 References ........................................................................................ 16 Abstract This chapter provides an overview of a curriculum development journey of the AdvDip (TVT), a program designed to prepare South African TVET lecturers as progressive pedagogues. It responds to Akoojee’ s (2016) call for “radical re- visioning” that truly transforms the TVET system. In considering contextual realities linked to poverty, inequality, and human development, a humanizing pedagogy (Freire 1993) and the capability approach (Sen 1980) is used as these are deemed to be responsive alternatives to the standard educational and eco- nomic frameworks. The chapter begins with an exploration of the current TVET landscape against the background of prevailing contextual realities; then the K. Yassim (*) University of Johannesburgh, Gauteng, South Africa e-mail: Kyassim@uj.ac.za N. Rudman (*) · L. Maluleke Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa e-mail: neville.rudman@mandela.ac.za; Lucky.Maluleke@mandela.ac.za © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 S. McGrath et al. (eds.), Handbook of Vocational Education and Training, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49789-1_6-1 1