Gestaltungsorientierung als Entwicklungsstrategie zur Beförderung der beruflichen Fortbildung – dargestellt und untersucht am Beispiel des Projektes VET-Net

In the thesis a shaping oriented and networked further education for VET pedagogues is presented as a desirable development strategy in the process of VET in Sub-Sahara Africa. This is exemplified by the project „Further Education and Research Network for VET Professionals in Sub-Sahara
Africa” (VET-Net), to which the author contributed.
A scientific position based on vocational sciences is shown as a basis for networked shaping in VET further education as well as for teaching and learning in VET. Shaping is represented and justified as a base category, as a special action or activity.
Conditions of success are demonstrated as a result for successful shaping. Also, it is shown that competency in shaping is a key for university lecturers, to initiate and pursue the development and use of a training system usefully - in cooperation with teachers in VET schools, companies and other vocational training institutions and under the specific conditions that are given in Sub-Sahara Africa.
The developments in the VET-Net project will be analyzed, focusing on the continuing education situation in universities in Maputo, Mozambique, in Jimma, Ethiopia and in Johannesburg in South Africa.
It becomes clear how professional VET pedagogues can develop a desirable shaping competence for the implementation of a further education network. With the help of the empirical investigation the development becomes recognizable. For this, methods of qualitative social research are used: the group discussion in combination with guided interviews with experts.
Through a category-based content analysis of the collected data the previously gained insights into the shaping orientation have been confirmed or reasonable modified.
As a consequence of the theoretical considerations and the empirical investigation, a shaping and competence oriented further education model for a Train-the-Trainer system (TtT-System) for professional pedagogues is finally proposed.