Intuition as Crucial Component of Professional Competence: Its Relevance for Competence-based Vocational and Professiona
Competence-based vocational and professional education and training aims at changing the perspective from the input into professionals’ preparation for workplaces to the outcome of such preparation. The theoretical implication behind this change focuses o
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Intuition as Crucial Component of Professional Competence: Its Relevance for Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education and Training Christian Harteis
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Introduction
The central goal of vocational and professional education and training is to develop an individual’s skills and capabilities in a way that the individual is well prepared for the demands of the workplace. Even though the demands of different vocations and professions widely differ and vary, their curricula share the purpose of providing individuals those skills and knowledge that allows them to fulfill working tasks in their field adequately. However, during the last two decades, educational policy on how best to follow this purpose has changed. The idea of competence-based vocational and professional education and training replaced the traditional thinking about curricula, which strongly focused the input to (i.e., content of) syllabi, by concentrating to the intended outcome. Such outcome can be described as a catalogue of competencies which a candidate has to demonstrate after completion of a training or education program. This approach to education and training implies assumptions on how best to meet today’s and future’s work demands. The core of the assumptions delineates to develop an individual’s excellence in a vocational or professional field as far as possible, because excellence might be the best precondition for coping with novel challenges. Expertise research as a particular research approach in educational science and psychology becomes relevant here. This approach analyzes the development from novice to expert by focusing on the establishment, modification, and structure of knowledge on this journey. The crucial characteristic of an expert is his capability to reliably perform extraordinarily in his domain. Hence, experts are considered to cope with challenges better, more efficient, quicker than mediocre performers of a domain. An expert represents the ideal model of a graduate of vocational and C. Harteis (*) University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 M. Mulder (ed.), Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education, Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41713-4_45
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professional education and training. It is the capability to cope with work demands adequately, which is the key promise of expertise. Following a classical approach of expertise, intuition as the capability to act appropriately without significant cognitive effort is the crucial aspect of expertise. Obviously, the development of highperformance capabilities requires the development of knowledge structures which allow intuitive acting.
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What Makes an Individual Excellent? Characteristics of Excellence
From the perspective of expertise research, three qualities of knowledge and knowing can be distinguished which altogether form an individual’s excellence. It is firstly a compr
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