Special Issue: Competence – the essence and use of the concept in ICVT

Innovations in vocational education and difficulties in their empirical substantiation (Reinhold Nickolaus, Bernd Knöll, Tobias Gschwendtner); Competence-based VET as seen by Dutch researchers (Renate Wesselink, Harm J. A. Biemans, Martin Mulder, Elke R. van den Elsen); Practical knowledge and occupational competence (Felix Rauner); Competences and vocational higher education: Now and in future (Marcel van der Klink, Jo Boon, Kathleen Schlusmans); Training in socio-emotional skills through on-site training (Juan Carlos Pérez-González, Elvira Repetto Talavera); The production and destruction of individual competence: the role of vocational experience (Fátima Suleman, Jean-Jacques Paul); Towards a framework for assessing teacher competence (Erik Roelofs, Piet Sanders)