• Preface.- Introduction: Competence Diagnostics in Vocational Education – what for?.- Foundations of a competence model.- The COMET competence model: foundations for the study of professional competence and identity.- Test development and design of the study.- Test instruments and implementation of the COMET study.- Results 2008 – the survey population.- Results 2008 – Apprentices competence.- Results of the main phase.- The COMET rating procedure in practice: some conclusions.- References.

A pioneering collection of essays which is central to understanding the historical and contemporary meanings of socialism in the context of neoliberal globalization. It is a most timely contribution to a growing intellectual project that challenges the hegemony of capitalism, while re-thinking and theorizing alternatives. Iveta Silova, Associate Professor of Comparative Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA In this significant contribution to recent scholarship the authors use the lens of socialist education to offer an original critique of hegemonic capitalism, and present an intellectually rigorous search for alternatives by reconsidering historical socialism and advancing promising educational experiments that challenge the 'global architecture of education'. Anders Breidlid, Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo University College, Norway

• Preface.- Introduction: Competence Diagnostics in Vocational Education – what for?.- Foundations of a competence model.- The COMET competence model: foundations for the study of professional competence and identity.- Test development and design of the study.- Test instruments and implementation of the COMET study.- Results 2008 – the survey population.- Results 2008 – Apprentices competence.- Results of the main phase.- The COMET rating procedure in practice: some conclusions.- References.

A pioneering collection of essays which is central to understanding the historical and contemporary meanings of socialism in the context of neoliberal globalization. It is a most timely contribution to a growing intellectual project that challenges the hegemony of capitalism, while re-thinking and theorizing alternatives. Iveta Silova, Associate Professor of Comparative Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA In this significant contribution to recent scholarship the authors use the lens of socialist education to offer an original critique of hegemonic capitalism, and present an intellectually rigorous search for alternatives by reconsidering historical socialism and advancing promising educational experiments that challenge the 'global architecture of education'. Anders Breidlid, Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo University College, Norway

• Preface.- Introduction: Competence Diagnostics in Vocational Education – what for?.- Foundations of a competence model.- The COMET competence model: foundations for the study of professional competence and identity.- Test development and design of the study.- Test instruments and implementation of the COMET study.- Results 2008 – the survey population.- Results 2008 – Apprentices competence.- Results of the main phase.- The COMET rating procedure in practice: some conclusions.- References.

A pioneering collection of essays which is central to understanding the historical and contemporary meanings of socialism in the context of neoliberal globalization. It is a most timely contribution to a growing intellectual project that challenges the hegemony of capitalism, while re-thinking and theorizing alternatives. Iveta Silova, Associate Professor of Comparative Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA In this significant contribution to recent scholarship the authors use the lens of socialist education to offer an original critique of hegemonic capitalism, and present an intellectually rigorous search for alternatives by reconsidering historical socialism and advancing promising educational experiments that challenge the 'global architecture of education'. Anders Breidlid, Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo University College, Norway