Towards a holistic model of professional competence

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 20-30

  Cheetham, Graham ^a   Chivers, Geoff ^b  

^a Department for Education and Employment ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Continuing professional development; National vocational qualifications; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986037952     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090599610119692     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Schon, D., The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, Maurice Temple Smith, London, 1983.
2. Schon, D., Educating the Reflective Practitioner, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987.
3. Mansfield, R. and Mathews, D., Job Competence: A Description for Use in Vocational Education and Training, Further Education College, Blagdon, 1985.
4. Boyatzis, R.E., The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance, Wiley, New York, NY, 1982.
5. Klemp, G.O., “The assessment of occupational competence”, report to the National Institute of Education, Washington, DC, 1980.
6. Schroder, H.M., Managerial Competence: The Key to Excellence, Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, IA, 1989.
7. In the UK, it has become the convention to use the plural “competences” when referring to occupational standards. This convention will be followed in this article. However, when referring to competence in a more general sense, the plural “competencies” will be used.
8. Reynolds, M. and Snell, R., Contribution to Development of Management Competence, Manpower Services Commission, Sheffield, 1988.
9. Linstead, S., “Developing management meta-competence: can distance learning help?”, Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 6 No. 14, 1991, pp. 17-27.
10. Hall, D.T., Career Development in Organisations, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1986.
11. Nordhaug, O., “Individual competences in firms”, Working Paper, Centre for Human Resources, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1990.
12. Ozar, D.T., “Building awareness of ethical standards”, in Curry, L. and Wergin, J.F. (Eds), Educating Professionals, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1993, pp. 148-77.
13. Eraut, M., Steadman, S., Cole, G. and Marquand, J., Ethics in Occupational Standards, NVQs and SVQs, Employment Department, Sheffield, 1994.
14. Jessup, G., Outcomes: NVQs and the Emerging Model of Education and Training, The Falmer Press, London, 1991.
15. Fowler, B. (Ed.), MCI Personal Competence Model: Uses and Implementation, Employment Department, Sheffield, 1994.
16. Hyland, T., “Meta-competence, metaphysics and vocational expertise”, Competence and Assessment, No. 20, Employment Department, Sheffield, 1992, pp. 22-4.
17. Bloom, B.S., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1956 (18th printing 1974).