Through discussions of teaching practice and actual lesson suggestions, this book clarifies how the viewpoint of critical pedagogy can be used to develop a clear and principled practice of work education. The introduction provides a brief discussion of how critical pedagogy is understood and how it relates to work education. Chapter 1 situates the book's approach to work education within the domain of critical pedagogy. Chapter 2 provides a detailed discussion of specific teaching and learning strategies that can be used to encourage critical inquiry into workplace experience. Chapters 3-13 follow the same format. Each chapter begins with a set of introductory comments that provide a rationale for the content; lesson suggestions and teaching notes follow. These chapters deal with the following topics: working knowledge; skills and work design; teachers working with employers to develop the learning potential of work sites; social relations at work; occupational safety and health; the interrelation of work, desire, and leisure; unions as a way to solve problems by sticking together; self-assessment as a way to change circumstances and to change oneself; pay (compensation for work); getting a job; and images of the future and future work. An index is appended. (YLB)