This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicating general characteristics of the work environment that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning. Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore theoretical and empirical analyses on the boundary between working and learning in various contexts and with various methodological approaches.

Readers will discover how current workplace learning approaches can emphasise the learning potential of the work environment and how workplaces can combine the application of competence that is working, with its acquisition or learning. Through these chapters, we learn about the educational challenge to design workplaces as environments of rich learning potential without neglecting business demands.

Expert authors explore how learning and working are both to be considered as two common aspects of an individual s activity. Complexity, significance, integrity and variety of assigned work tasks as well as scope of action, interaction and feedback within its processing, turn out to be crucial work characteristics, amongst others revealed in these chapters.

Part of the Professional and Practice-based Learning series, this bookwill appeal to anyone with an interest in workplaces as learning environments: those within government, community or business agencies and within the research communities in education, psychology, sociology and business management will find it of great interest."

This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter. The book starts out by presenting results from previous studies that underline the necessity to train professional error competence of teachers, especially in the field of accounting. The studies analysed include research in the field of accounting, and on the efficacy of teacher training. Next, considerations on training programmes are presented. From these analyses, a training programme was designed to support professional error competence in accounting. This training programme aims for increased knowledge about students' errors (content knowledge) and offers strategies to handle these errors (pedagogical content knowledge). Both are central facets of professional error competence. The book describes the development, characteristics, implementation, and evaluation of this programme. It details the test platform that was developed and used for the assessment of professional error competence, and critically discusses the results from the evaluation of the training programme from various perspectives. The current discussion on teacher training and expertise is influenced by empirical results obtained in international large-scale studies such as PISA and TIMSS. The findings of the studies underpin the discussion on teaching quality and teachers' professional competences. The key issue is that teacher competence has an impact on teaching quality and this, in turn, influences students' achievements. International comparative studies reveal that teachers often lack central competence facets, and therefore it is assumed that standard teacher training programmes may fail to successfully prepare student teachers for their tasks. Therefore, customized training programmes are currently being discussed. Their focus is mostly on pedagogical content knowledge and classroom practices, because these competence facets are essential for teaching quality.

The increasing digitization of the world of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. These are connected with changed qualification profiles and thus new challenges for vocational education and training (VET). Companies, vocational schools and other educational institutions must respond appropriately. The volume focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners and educational institutions in vocational education and training and aims to provide up-to-date results on learning in the digital age.

Der Autor untersucht den Stellenwert volkswirtschaftlicher Inhalte innerhalb der kaufmannischen Berufsbildung. Wahrend fachorientierte Lehrplane durch enge inhaltliche Vorgaben gekennzeichnet sind, eroeffnen lernfeldbasierte Rahmenlehrplane mit Blick auf die unterrichtliche Umsetzung unterschiedliche inhaltliche Schwerpunktsetzungen. Der Autor zeichnet die fachliche Genese volkswirtschaftlicher Inhalte nach und pruft, welche Einflussfaktoren die unterrichtliche Relevanz volkswirtschaftlicher Inhalte beeinflussen. In diesem Rahmen stehen personelle Aspekte auf Seiten der Lehrpersonen sowie die Wirkung von Abschlussprufungen im Fokus der Arbeit.

Obwohl Lehrpersonen die Qualitat von Unterricht entscheidend mitbestimmen, ist in der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspadagogik relativ wenig daruber bekannt, wie Lehrkrafte an beruflichen Schulen denken und handeln. Die Arbeit greift dieses Forschungsdefizit theoriegeleitet auf. Bezogen auf den Lerninhaltsbereich Buchfuhrung analysiert der Autor, uber welche Sichtweisen Lehrkrafte berichten, wie sie Unterricht gestalten und wie sich die erzielbaren Effekte auf Seiten der Lernenden darstellen. Anschliessend uberpruft er, inwiefern sich Zusammenhange zwischen Sichtweisen von Lehrpersonen, Unterrichtsgestaltung und Output ausmachen lassen.

Research in Vocational Education is an international book series, dealing with challenges in VET, workplace learning, and professional learning from different perspectives. The authors of this volume take an intense look at the economic competence of young adults in European countries, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence is of special interest within this group, because these young people are - mostly for the first time in their lives - responsible for autonomously managing their own financial affairs. And after completing their qualification, they must find their way in the working environment and a constantly changing labour market, thereby needing economic competences as well. Contributions dealing with theoretical approaches as well as papers presenting empirical findings will be represented. The Editors: Prof. Dr. Eveline Wuttke, Professor of economic education, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Prof. Dr. Jurgen Seifried, Chair of economic education II, University of Mannheim, German

Kristina Koegler widmet sich in ihrem Buch dem besonders in der beruflichen Bildung vernachlassigten Phanomen der unterrichtlichen Langeweile. Angesichts der Allgegenwart und Vieldeutigkeit der Emotion stellt sich auch und besonders im kaufmannischen Kernfach Rechnungswesen die Frage nach Entstehungsbedingungen und Wirkungen. Die Autorin integriert Theoriestrange zur Psychologie des Zeiterlebens und der Emotionsentstehung. Mittels Videographie und Experience-Sampling werden Beobachtungs- und Befragungsdaten gekoppelt und mehrebenenanalytisch ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse gewahren einen Einblick in die prozessuale Dynamik der Entstehungsbedingungen unterrichtlicher Langeweile und erganzen die padagogisch-psychologische Befundlage zum Konstrukt.

Im Zentrum der kritischen Auseinandersetzungen um die "richtige" Ausrichtung des Rechnungswesenunterrichts steht seit geraumer Zeit die so genannte Bilanzmethode, die in ihrer algorithmisierenden Verkurzung okonomischer Prozesse das Verstehen okonomischen Handelns be- bzw. verhindert. Der Band prasentiert Beitrage zu einem internationalen Symposium, das im Jahre 2004 in Bamberg stattfand, und gibt einen Uberblick uber den Stand der aktuellen fachdidaktischen Diskussion."

Jurgen Seifried zeigt, dass die Kombination des selbstorganisierten Lernens mit der Didaktik des wirtschaftsinstrumentellen Rechnungswesens die Unterrichtsqualitat verbessert, und leitet konkrete Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung des Rechnungswesenunterrichts ab.

Is it possible to learn from your mistakes? While there is evidence to the positive, there is also evidence suggesting that whether mistakes may teach you anything depends on genetic disposition, as well as supervisors handling those mistakes. Apparently, it is of utter importance to see how things cannot work, what things are not like, and what you do not know. Through this negative knowledge, learning through errors may be achieved. This book looks at errors and their potentials for the learning process, as well as the sort of environment that does make a positive difference concerning these concepts. (Series: Research in Vocational Education - Vol. 1)