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Measuring Professional Knowledge

What Knowledge is the Foundation of Professional Skills?

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Overview

  • A modern knowledge concept based on vocational pedagogy

  • Modern guiding ideas for vocational education and training

  • Theoretical foundations and empirical results

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Professional Knowledge

  2. Knowledge as a Dimension of Professional Competence

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About this book

In this book, we show the replacement of academic and vocational education, which is structured according to subject systems and oriented towards scientific knowledge, by vocational action knowledge. This work process knowledge is the basis for the acquisition of the design competence of vocational specialists, which is becoming increasingly important in the world of work.

A modern knowledge concept based on vocational education is developed and documented. In the first part of the book the concept of vocational knowledge is developed, in the second part empirical results from COMET projects are documented, from which the vocational knowledge imparted in different occupations can be read.

There has been a confusing discussion about vocational knowledge for decades. In 1991, the KMK agreed on a new concept for vocational education and training with the guiding idea of vocational design competence. It remained open on which vocational knowledge this new guiding idea should be based. Up to now there has been no original vocational pedagogical justification for the vocational knowledge on which vocational design competence is based.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Felix Rauner, Martin Ahrens

About the authors

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Felix Rauner is Head of the VET Research Group at the University of Bremen and Advisory Professor at East China University in Shanghai.

Martin Ahrens is a member of the VET Research Group at the University of Bremen.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measuring Professional Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: What Knowledge is the Foundation of Professional Skills?

  • Authors: Felix Rauner, Martin Ahrens

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38877-5

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-38876-8Published: 18 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-38877-5Published: 17 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 325

  • Number of Illustrations: 194 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Education, general, Epistemology

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