The Nature of Study Programmes in Vocational Education: Evaluation of the Model for Comprehensive Competence-Based Vocational Education in the Netherlands

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-210

  Sturing, Lidwien ^a   Biemans, Harm J A ^a   Mulder, Martin ^a   de Bruijn, Elly ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence based vocational education; Competentiveness; Curriculum policy making; Self evaluation; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053987009     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-011-9059-4     Document Type: Article

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