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understanding and more on questioning, collaborating and delving deeper into core issues raised. This
often involves additional resources such as videos, graphics and research to engage students in the
topic.
The development of pedagogical competency in the institutional context of higher education
has multiple dimensions. These include individual, person-specific development along a career path.
Another dimension is the institutional anchoring of pedagogical competence through continuing
education and training programs, assessments, and the development of cultural contexts promoting
quality. The third dimension, not discussed in depth here, involves the laying down of legal and
procedural frameworks regarding teacher aptitude in the relevant statutes governing institutions of
higher education and the regulations covering professorships, post-doctoral programs and doctoral
programs. A fourth dimension is the development of competency-based national standards to which
the universities are bound. Some strategies and approaches are visible among the German universities.
However, in comparison to the developments seen in the neighboring European countries, primarily to
the north and west, German universities have been unable to keep up.
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