Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Dutch Vocational Education System

Part I. Introduction

1. Vocational Education in the Netherlands
Elly Bruijn, Stephen Billett, Jeroen Onstenk

Part II. Policies and Organisations

2. Vocational and Professional Education and Lifelong Learning
Jeroen Onstenk, Ruud Duvekot

3. Transforming Vocational Education: Encouraging Innovation via Public Private Partnerships
Marc Meer, Jan Peter Toren, Tammy Lie

4. Great Expectations: VET’s Meaning for Dutch Local Industry
Anneke Westerhuis, Marc Meer

5. Improvement of Educational Quality in VET: Who Is Next?
Louise Venne, Marlies Honingh, Marieke Genugten

6. Professional Development of Teachers in Vocational Education
Marcel Klink, Jan Streumer

Part III. Educational Programmes: Teaching and Learning

7. A Dialogue Worth Having: Vocational Competence, Career Identity and a Learning Environment for Twenty-First Century Success at Work
Frans Meijers, Reinekke Lengelle, Annemie Winters, Marinka Kuijpers

8. The Role and Nature of Knowledge in Vocational Programmes
Elly Bruijn, Arthur Bakker

9. Designing Competence-Based Vocational Curricula at the School-Work Boundary
Renate Wesselink, Ilya Zitter

10. Pedagogic Strategies for Improving Students’ Engagement and Development
Truus Harms, Aimée Hoeve, Peter Boer

11. Work-Based Learning (WBL) in Dutch Vocational Education: Connecting Learning Places, Learning Content and Learning Processes
Jeroen Onstenk

12. Assessment in Dutch Vocational Education: Overview and Tensions of the Past 15 Years
Liesbeth Baartman, Judith Gulikers

Part IV. End Piece

13. The Dutch Vocational Education System: Institutional Focus and Transformations
Stephen Billett

Nyckelord: Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Skills