Vocational Education and Personnel Capacity Building

Pedagogic activities at state-maintained institutions and private companies providing vocational training require teaching qualifications under various conditions. This postgraduate course provides graduates from developing countries with the opportunity to obtain pedagogic and didactic qualifications. Obligatory Modules Foundation of Vocational Education and Adult Education Designing of Learning and Teaching Processes Management Processes Learning Psychology Analysis of Research, Production and Education Projection of Education Systems Scientific Works Vocational Education Internship Field Research Internship In-depth studies in the Compulsory Optional Section. In the compulsory optional section, students are required to choose 3 or 4 of the 5 vocational-training orientated, in-depth study areas offered. The chosen topics will be related to the students’ future work areas: In-depth study in Occupational Field Theory/Specialist Didactics with a specific vocational orientation enhances the students’ teaching skills and competence for vocational schools. The following vocational subject orientations are offered: Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Metal Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, Food Engineering/Domestic Science/Home Economics. In all cases, these vocational subjects require students to hold an appropriate engineering qualification, which means that students are not free to choose their subject at will. The subject Personnel Capacity Building: Students get to know basic instruments of personnel work and development and are able to apply them purposefully in fields of Vocational Education. Designing Communicative Processes: Students are able to design communication processes purposively and focused on specific tar get groups The Adult Education/Education Management orientation increases the graduates’ competence for conceptual and teaching activities in the field of industrial in-firm training and further training in the students’ home countries. The Education Technology orientation provides expert knowledge and skills for the development of multimedia and computerintegrated education projects within the vocational education system.

Specialists responsible for project work aimed at restructuring or developing the vocational education system in the respective home country. Graduates will obtain the required qualifications for employment with authorities, in offices of planning and consultation, in departments of personnel management, education, continued education and retraining in enterprises, in national and international organisations and in vocational, technical and engineering schools.