Beschreibung:
Based on lessons learned from the ASSET programme, a national project to develop a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment, this text presents a research based description of a possible future for higher education and for education of the profession.
Introduction - vocational competence and university education; The ASSET programme - an outline; the functional analysis of competence - an empirically-based curriculum?; the other dimension of assessment - a general model of professional learning; practice and knowledge or practice as knowledge?; assessment - the development of an expert community; examples of candidates' work; the organizational/employment context - towards an educative workplace?; evaluation 1995 - the social work ASSET programme after five years; current and future developments.