Volker Rein & Johannes Wildt: Introduction

I. Fundamental questions concerning the relationship between scientific and professional education
Michael Brater & Nicolas Schrode: On the Synthesis of practical-vocational and scientific Education in the context of Science, Profession, and Competence Development
David Guile: Professional-Scientific Education: Rethinking the Concept of Knowledge - A Cultural-historical 'Recontextualization' Perspective
Stephanie Allais: Tied up in cobwebs: A Knowledge Perspective on Qualifications Frameworks
Rico Defila & Antonietta Di Giulio: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research - a Catalyst for a Professional-Scientific Education

II. Developments concerning the relationship between scientific and professional education
Johannes Wildt: Hochschuldidaktik as a theory of scientific and professional Education - revisited
Karin Büchter: Vocational Education and Academic Education from the Perspective of the Discipline of Vocational and Business Education in Germany
Pericles 'asher' Rospigliosi: Vocationalism in British Higher Education for a knowledge based Economy

III. Professional-Scientific Education in the context of systemic conditions (Macro perspective)
Ines Langemeyer & Andreas Martin: Quo vadis Higher Education with Academization?
Robert Wagenaar: Competence-based development of Learning Outcomes through Reference Tools: Potential and limits of cross-educational Qualifications Frameworks
Natasha A. Jankowski: Participatory Learning System Paradigm in the U.S.: Prospective Potentials, Options, and Challenges
Klaus Harney: Between Education and Profession: The Hinge Function of Professional Schools. System-theoretical and historical aspects

IV. Professional-Scientific Education in the design of qualifications (Meso-perspective)
Ursula Walkenhorst: 'Scientificness and Experience Orientation - (not) a Contradiction when Looking at the Academization of Professions in the Healthcare System'
Ulrike Buchmann: Vocational-Scientific Education in Qualification Design - Conditional Factors for Quality Assurance and Development of Qualifications Across Educational Sectors
Volker Rein: Professional-Scientific Competence Orientation in the context of polyvalent Qualification Development - Developments, Problems and Perspectives in Germany, USA and beyond
Beatrix Wildt and Johannes Wildt: Quality and Participation in Curriculum Development in the Context of Good Governance

V. Professional-Scientific Education in teaching and learning processes (Micro-perspective)
Niclas Schaper: The relation between Knowledge and Action from the Perspective of Competence and professional Research Approaches
Lorraine McIlrath: Exploring Service Learning as a Pedagogy to Engage and Prepare Students as Citizens within Europe
Johannes Wildt: Scientific and Learning Structures in Higher Education - from Research- and Project Learning to Transformative Learning
Johannes Wildt & Volker Rein: Considerations on the way towards Professional-Scientific Education

Index