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The development of occupational profiles, training curricula, curricular frameworks and the related syllabuses for in-company and school-based vocational education and training is based on the investigation of qualification requirements. The term 'qualification' comprises the knowledge, skills and attitudes that need to be transferred for the performance of professional tasks. Qualifications denote the professional actions determined by the design and organisation of work. They represent thus the objective site of professional skills and knowledge. This extension of the concept of qualification leads to certain overlaps with the concepts of competence and education. An extended concept of qualifications emphasises the ability to reflect and to participate in shaping the conditions of work. What underlies the concept of qualifications the labour studies category of complete professional action: the connection of planning, performing and evaluating professional tasks (Hellpach 1922; Emery 1959; Tomaszewski 1981; Hacker 1986a; Volpert 1987c; Bremer 2005a). For the investigation of qualification requirements this entails the consequence the characteristic work settings of an occupation have to be examined.

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The volume from which this chapter is taken is available in VOCEDplus at TD/IRD 88.423. Show less