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About the book

The AVIVA model of teaching and learning was first presented in a book by Christoph Städeli and his colleagues, published in German in 2010 (Städeli, Grassi, Rhiner, & Obrist, 2010). Since then, the model has received considerable attention from those involved in the field of teacher education and training in Switzerland and other German-speaking countries. Interest has also grown in non-German speaking countries, particularly amongst teacher trainers, policy makers and other experts working in the field of vocational education and training (VET). It is for this reason that we decided to publish this book on AVIVA in English.

We used the original German version as the basis but complemented it with sections on three key topics that we developed for this volume. We also decided to stick to the model’s name, “AVIVA”, even though the terms which this acronym represents have been changed in the English translation of this book (cf. section 1.2.4).

Acknowledgements go to Claudio Caduff and Dario Venutti, who commented on earlier drafts of this English version of the book, as well as to Johanna Rodda for the translation, Maurice Hutton for the copy-editing and Susie Nelson for her work on the illustrations. Furthermore, we would like to thank Tatjana Straka from hep publishing house, who, as always, carefully managed the publication process, as well as Peter Egger, hep’s chairman, who has been very supportive in making this book possible.