Didactics of Vocational Education and Training

This chapter first deals with the question of the extent to which “general didactics” are suitable for vocational education and training. The second question relates to the relationship between “new technologies” and didactic approaches. The third question deals with the significance of the guiding idea of “enabling people to help shape work and technology” and the methodological approach of learning tasks for a modern didactics. It seems that “progressiveness” in VET practice is still “measured” less by didactics than by the degree of approach to the project method. The form of the project is particularly suited to methodically realizing the didactic concept of design-oriented occupations. The second question was answered in the affirmative for five reasons.