From Diagnostics to Learning Success: Proceedings in Vocational Education and Training: 2 (Professional and VET Learning) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9462091900 ISBN 13: 9789462091900

Publisher: Sense Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Accelerated substantial progress regarding many fields of production and services imposes pressure upon the labor market. Employers are desperately looking for skilled workers in nearly all technological fields. All over the world this pressure reaches the national systems of vocational education and training. Along with the output orientation turn new standards are imposed, forcing firms and schools to make every endeavor to improve and remodel their programs as well as their practices to reach more and more ambitious goals. To be successful they need the results of scientific research from which they demand reliable information on methods to diagnose the state and learning progress of students and on means to foster and promote competencies of heterogeneous groups of leaners. The book offers 22state-of-the-art articles covering the central fields of vocational education and training and reporting on new and adequate ways to deal with these challenges.

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About the Author

Klaus Beck was born in 1941; studies in business administration, economics and pedagogics at the Universities of Berlin and Mannheim (1962-1967), graduated with a diploma in business education. Postgraduate studies in educational research, psychology and philosophy at the University of Mannheim; doctoral degree (1975) and habilitation (1985). Professor at Universities of Oldenburg (1982-1986) and Erlangen-Nurnberg (1987-1993). Chair of business education at the University of Mainz (since 1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462091900
• ISBN 13: 9789462091900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Beck Klaus, Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia Olga