英文摘要 |
Document analysis was used in this study to investigate the effects of vocational teacher education system reforms, which have been implemented per the Bologna Declaration, in Germany. The traditional vocational teacher education approach was divided into three areas: practical and vocational skills, engineering and scientific knowledge, and pedagogy. In the 1950s, vocational school teachers began to push for reforms that would make vocational school education similar to that provided by the academically oriented gymnasium system. As a result, colleges and universities gradually began to offer vocational teacher education with an emphasis on engineering and under a framework modeled on the gymnasium system. This, however, led to a serious shortage of vocational school teachers and an overemphasis on theory at the expense of practice. Following the adoption of the principles of the Bologna Declaration, the German higher education system adopted a graded education approach with separate tracks for bachelor's and master's students, with vocational teacher education being offered in one of three modes, namely continuous, sequential, or mixed. In the continuous mode, both bachelor's and master's students take core courses, subsidiary courses, and courses on pedagogy. In the sequential mode, bachelor's students take only core courses, and subsidiary courses and courses in pedagogy are only taken at the master's level. In the mixed mode, the courses are the same as in the continuous mode, but the pedagogy courses are arranged as an independent module. In terms of the transition from the bachelor's to master's level, the sequential mode has the most flexibility and is therefore the most effective at addressing teacher shortages. At the bachelor's and master's levels, the curriculum for the continuous mode has the strongest focus on teacher education; moreover, because of this mode's internship requirement and emphasis on vocational skills, it is best suited for addressing the overemphasis on theory at the expense of practice. |