Professional-Scientific Education

Dr. Volker Rein is Senior Research Associate, Department for Learning and Teaching, at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training in Bonn, Germany.Dr. Dr. hc. Johannes Wildt is Professor at the Center for Higher Education, Technical University Dortmund, Germany.

• Volker Rein & Johannes Wildt: IntroductionI. Fundamental questions concerning the relationship between scientific and professional educationMichael Brater & Nicolas Schrode: On the Synthesis of practical-vocational and scientific Education in the context of Science, Profession, and Competence DevelopmentDavid Guile: Professional-Scientific Education: Rethinking the Concept of Knowledge – A Cultural-historical ‘Recontextualization’ PerspectiveStephanie Allais: Tied up in cobwebs: A Knowledge Perspective on Qualifications FrameworksRico Defila & Antonietta Di Giulio: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research – a Catalyst for a Professional-Scientific EducationII. Developments concerning the relationship between scientific and professional educationJohannes Wildt: Hochschuldidaktik as a theory of scientific and professional Education – revisitedKarin Büchter: Vocational Education and Academic Education from the Perspective of the Discipline of Vocational and Business Education in GermanyPericles ’asher’ Rospigliosi: Vocationalism in British Higher Education for a knowledge based EconomyIII. Professional-Scientific Education in the context of systemic conditions (Macro perspective)Ines Langemeyer & Andreas Martin: Quo vadis Higher Education with Academization?Robert Wagenaar: Competence-based development of Learning Outcomes through Reference Tools: Potential and limits of cross-educational Qualifications FrameworksNatasha A. Jankowski: Participatory Learning System Paradigm in the U.S.: Prospective Potentials, Options, and ChallengesKlaus Harney: Between Education and Profession: The Hinge Function of Professional Schools. System-theoretical and historical aspectsIV. Professional-Scientific Education in the design of qualifications (Meso-perspective)Ursula Walkenhorst: ‘Scientificness and Experience Orientation – (not) a Contradiction when Looking at the Academization of Professions in the Healthcare System’Ulrike Buchmann: Vocational-Scientific Education in Qualification Design – Conditional Factors for Quality Assurance and Development of Qualifications Across Educational SectorsVolker Rein: Professional-Scientific Competence Orientation in the context of polyvalent Qualification Development – Developments, Problems and Perspectives in Germany, USA and beyondBeatrix Wildt and Johannes Wildt: Quality and Participation in Curriculum Development in the Context of Good GovernanceV. Professional-Scientific Education in teaching and learning processes (Micro-perspective)Niclas Schaper: The relation between Knowledge and Action from the Perspective of Competence and professional Research ApproachesLorraine McIlrath: Exploring Service Learning as a Pedagogy to Engage and Prepare Students as Citizens within EuropeJohannes Wildt: Scientific and Learning Structures in Higher Education – from Research- and Project Learning to Transformative LearningJohannes Wildt & Volker Rein: Considerations on the way towards Professional-Scientific EducationIndex