Competence-based vocational and professional education : bridging the worlds of work and education /

This book presents a comprehensive overview of extant literature on competence-based vocational and professional education since the introduction of the competence concept in the 1950s. To structure the field, the book distinguishes between three approaches to defining competence, based on 1.functio...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mulder, Martin, 1951- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer Verlag, [2017]
Series:UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v.23.
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Online Access:1850-9999
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Martin Mulder and Jonathan Winterton
  • Part I Theory: Conceptual foundations, concerns and perspectives
  • 2. Developing domains of occupational competence: Workplaces and learner agency / Stephen Billett
  • Competence, qualification and action theory / Matthias Vonken
  • Competence and professional expertise / Arnoud T. Evers and Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden
  • Competence, capability and graduate attributes / Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch
  • Using an epistemological perspective to understand competence-based vocational and professional education / Richard G. Bagnall and Steven Hodge
  • Mindful working and skilful means: Enhancing the affective elements of vocational education and training through the ethical foundations of mindfulness / Terry Hyland
  • Competence-based education and teacher professional development / Christopher Day
  • Beyond competence, thinking through the changes: Economy, work and neo-liberalism / James Avis
  • The integrated view on competence / Paul Hager
  • Competence and the alignment of education and work / Martin Mulder
  • Part II Competence-based education as a global innovation
  • Competence-based education in the United States / R. Kirby Barrick
  • Competence-based education and assessment in the accounting profession in Canada and the USA / J. Efrim Bortiz and Carla Carnaghan
  • NVQs and approaches to competence in the UK: Contexts, issues and prospects / Peter Stokes
  • Competence development and workplace learning: Enduring challenges in the interplay of policy and practice in the UK / Karen Evans and Natasha Kersh
  • Competence domains and vocational-professional education in Germany / Susanne Weber and Frank Achtenhagen
  • The competence development agenda in France / Françoise Le Deist
  • Competence-based approach in the education reforms of Lithuania and Estonia / Vidmantas Tūtlys and Olav Aarna
  • Competence-based education in the Italian context: State of affairs and overcoming difficulties / Marco Ronchetti
  • Competence-based education in China's higher TVET: The case of Shenzhen Polytechnic / Dayue (David) Fan
  • Competence-based training in South Asia / Brajesh Panth and Rhona B. Caoli-Rodriguez
  • Competence-based vocational education and training in Viet Nam: Input and process towards learning outcomes / Nguyen Quang Viet
  • Competence and TVET innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Rwanda / Wybe van Halsema
  • Part III Competence and key aspects of education systems
  • Comptencies in higher education: Experience with the academic competencies and quality assurance (ACQA) framework / Jacob Perrenet, Tijn Borghuis, Anthonie Meijers, and Kees van Overveld
  • Models and principles for designing competence-based curricula, teaching, learning and assessment / Renate Wesselink, Harm Biemans, Judith Gulikers, and Martin Mulder
  • "4Cyourway": A competence framework for measuring competence growth from secondary vocational to higher education and curriculum design / Frank P.C.M de Jong, Hans Corten, and Cees de Jong
  • Comparing recognition of prior learning (RPL) across countries / Sandra Bohlinger
  • Competence assessment as learner support in education / Cees van der Vleuten, Dominique Sluijsmans, and Desiree Joosten-ten Brinke
  • Assuring quality in competence assessments: The value added of applying different assessment approaches to professional education / Sigrid Blömeke
  • Quality management of competence-based education / Antje Barabasch
  • Competence-based education and educational effectiveness / Lorenz Lassnigg
  • Areas of learning: The shift towards work and competence orientation within the school-based vocational education in the German dual apprenticeship system / Michael Gessler
  • Knowledge concepts in competence-based VET research perspectives on Cognitivist and Social-Constructivist approaches / Agnes Dietzen
  • Competence and the need for transferable skills / Christof Nägele and Barbara E. Stalder
  • Factors influencing professional development in teacher teams within CBE contexts / Piety Runhaar
  • Self-regulation and competence in formal and informal contexts of vocational and professional education / Petri Nokelainen, Heidi Kaivuo, and Laura Pylväs
  • Fostering development of work competencies and motivation via gamification / Michael Sailer, Jan Hense, Heinz Mandl, and Markus Klevers
  • Software tools for scaffolding argumentation competence development / Omid Noroozi and Simon McAlister
  • Part IV Competence domains
  • Modeling, measurement, and development of professional competence in industrial-technical professions / Florina Ştefănică, Stephan Abele, Felix Walker, and Reinhold Nickolaus
  • Competence modeling and measurement in engineering mechanics / Georg Spöttle and Frank Musekamp
  • Modeling and measurement of teacher competence: Old wine in new skins? / Eveline Wuttke and Jürgen Seifried
  • Competency-based medical education and its competency frameworks / Olle ten Cate
  • Green skills as the agenda for the competence movement in vocational and professional education / margarita Pavlova
  • Complex problem-solving in a changing world: Bridging domain-specific and transversal competence demands in vocational education / Jonas Neubert, Thomas Lans, Maida Mustafic, Samuel Greiff, and Peer Ederer
  • Intuition as crucial component of profession competence: Its relevance for competence-based vocational and professional education and training / Christian Harteis
  • Labour market uncertainty and career perspectives: Competence in entrepreneurship courses / Olivier Toutain and Alain Fayolle
  • Becoming globally competent through student mobility / Vitaliy Popov, Dine Brinkman, and Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven
  • Social competence research: A review / Susan Seeber and Eveline Wittmann
  • Computational thinking as an emerging competence domain / Aman Yadav, Jon Good, Joke Voogt, and Petra Fisser
  • Part V Conclusions and discussion
  • Competence theory and research: A synthesis / Martin Mulder.