Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education

Martin Mulder (1951, the Netherlands; MA Education Utrecht University, 1982; PhD University of Twente, 1992) has been a Professor and Head of the Education and Competence Studies Group (ECS) at Wageningen University, the world-leading university in agrifood and environmental sciences, since 1998. His research has evolved from curriculum studies to corporate training, human resources development, vocational education, competence development and learning. At Wageningen University he leads a teaching and research programme on competence development in the agrifood and environment sector that was recognised as being of excellent and world-leading quality in 2015. He is editor of the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (JAEE) and member of various editorial committees in the field of education and training. He has (co)authored and edited hundreds of academic and professional articles, chapters and books, for academic, policymaking, and practical audiences, and has served on various scientific boards in his field. He has presented his work all over Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He is and has been active as chair of various Divisions and Networks of the Netherlands (NERA), European (EERA), American (AERA) and World (WERA) Educational Research Associations, mainly in the field of vocational, professional and higher education. He is founder of the Vocational Education and Training Research Network (VETNET) of EERA. He has received various awards for his achievements, of which the most recent ones are: the 2008 Outstanding Paper Award of the Journal of Workplace Learning, the 2011 Honorary Membership of VETNET, the 2015 Award in Recognition of Exceptional Service of the Association of International Agricultural and Extension Education, the 2016 Agricultural Extension Education Leadership Award of the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and the 2016 Certificate of Appreciation of the SIG WPL of the AERA.

Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- Part I Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Concerns and Perspectives.- 2 Developing domains of occupational competence: Workplaces and learner agency.- 3 Competence, qualification and action theory.- 4 Competence and professional expertise.- 5 Competence, capabilities and graduate attributes.- 6 Using an epistemological perspective to understand competence-based vocational and professional education.- 7 Mindful Working and Skilful Means: Enhancing the affective elements of vocational education and training through the ethical foundations of mindfulness.- 8 Competence- based education and teacher professional development.- 9 Beyond competence, thinking through the changes: Economy, work and neo-Liberalism.- 10 The integrated view on competence.- 11 Competence and the alignment of education and work. Part II Competence-based Education as a Global Innovation.- II.I The USA: Where it all began.- 12 Competence-based education in the USA.- 13 Competence-based education and assessment in the accounting profession in Canada and the United States.- II.II Diverse European Approaches.- 14 NVQs and approaches to competence in the UK: Contexts, issues and prospects.- 15 Competence development and workplace learning: Enduring challenges in the interplay of policy and practice in the UK.- 16 Competence Domains and Vocational-Professional Education in Germany.- 17 The competence development agenda in France.- 18 Competence-based approach in the education reforms of Lithuania and Estonia.- 19 Competence-based Education in the Italian Context: State of Affairs and overcoming difficulties.- II.III Asian and African approaches.- 20 Competence-based education in China's higher TVET: The case of Shenzhen Polytechnic.- 21 Competence-based training in South Asia.- 22 Competence-based vocational education and training in Viet Nam: Input and process towards learning outcomes.- 23 Competence and TVET-Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa; The case of Rwanda.- Part III Competence and Key Aspects of Education Systems.- III.I Generic Competence Frameworks for Education Systems.- 24 Competencies in Higher Education: Experience with the Academic Competencies and Quality Assurance (ACQA) Framework.- 25 Models and Principles for Designing Competence-based Curricula, Teaching, Learning and Assessment.-  26 '4C your way': A competence framework for measuring competence growth from secondary vocational to higher education and curriculum design.- III.II Recognition, Assessment, Quality Management and Effectiveness.- 27 Comparing Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) across countries.- 28 Competence assessment as learner support in education.- 29 Assuring quality in competence assessments: The value-added of applying different assessment approaches to professional education.- 30 Quality management of competence-based education.- 31 Competence-based education and educational effectiveness.- III.III Areas of Learning, Knowledge and Skills.- 32 Areas of Learning: The shift towards work and competence orientation within the school-based vocational education in the German Dual Apprenticeship System.- 33 Knowledge concepts in competence-based VET-research. Perspectives on cognitivist and social-constructivist approaches.- 34 Competence and the need for transferable skills.- III.IV Support for Teachers, Teaching and Learning.- 35 Factors influencing professional development in teacher teams within CBE contexts.- 36 Self-regulation and competence in formal and informal contexts of vocational and professional education.- 37 Fostering development of work competencies and motivation via Gamification.- 38 Software tools for scaffolding argumentation competence development.- Part IV Competence Domains.- IV.I Discipline-Oriented Competence Domains.- 39 Modeling, measurement and development of professional competencies in industrial-technical professions.- 40 Competence modelling and measurement in engineering mechanics.- 41 Modelling and Measurement ofTeacher Competence: Old wine in new skins?.- 42 Competency-based Medical Education and its Competency-Frameworks.- IV.II Transversal Competence Domains.- 43 Green skills as the agenda for the competence-movement in TVET.- 44 Complex problem solving in a changing world: Bridging domain-specific and transversal competence demands in vocational education.- 45 Intuition as crucial component of professional competence: Its relevance for competence-based Vocational and Professional Education and Training.- 46 Labour market uncertainty and career perspectives: Competence in entrepreneurship courses.- 47 Becoming globally competent through student mobility.- 48 Social competence research: A review.- 49 Computational thinking as an emerging competence domain.- Conclusions and Discussion.- 50 Competence Theory and Research: A Synthesis.