What is vocational education

Summary: What is vocational education? Vocational education refers to the education of vocational knowledge, skills and professional ethics necessary for educated people to be able to engage in a certain occupation or productive labor, including vocational school education and vocational training. Vocational school education is academic in nature and is categorized into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. What are the characteristics of vocational education? The next step is to learn about it with the editor. What is vocational education

Relative to basic education, vocational education has its own characteristics. To summarize, the essence of vocational education should contain at least four aspects: one is people-oriented, the second is to teach according to the material, the third is scientific management, and the fourth is culture shaping.

Vocational education refers to a kind of educational activities to enable the educated to obtain certain vocational skills or vocational knowledge, and to form a good vocational morality, so as to meet the needs of engaging in a certain social production and labor, vocational education is also known as vocational and technical education.

Vocational training, such as pre-employment training for workers, re-employment training for laid-off workers and other vocational training, vocational high schools, junior colleges, technical schools and other vocational school education are all vocational education. The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents and workers with a certain level of culture and professional knowledge and skills, and compared with general education and adult education, vocational education focuses on the cultivation of practical skills and actual working ability.

What are the characteristics of vocational education

1. Adaptability

One is the adaptation of the vocational education system. The state development of vocational education, the establishment and improvement of vocational education system to meet the needs of the socialist market economy and social progress, which includes the direction of schooling, school levels, teaching content, vocational training institutions and management of vocational education should always be in a position to take the initiative to adapt to the needs of social and economic development.

The second is the adaptation of the object of vocational education. Educated people should not just have too narrow vocational nature or limited to a skill mastery, because rapid change is the characteristic of our times. Therefore, the main purpose of future vocational education must be to make young people highly adaptable.

Third is the adaptation of the mode of operation of vocational education. In order to meet the needs of the market, vocational education has to shift from a closed mode of schooling in the traditional sense, which is mainly based on school education, to a diversified and mixed mode with enterprises and institutions, individual citizens and schools. In response to the above statement, some people have questioned that basic education and higher education also have adaptability. This adaptability of basic education and higher education is still an integral part of vocational initiation education (basic education), vocational preparation education (higher education), and adaptability in the context of vocational education.

2. Intermediation

The intermediation of vocational education refers to the special position of vocational education between human development and social development, between education and occupation. That is to say, vocational education to promote the development of human personality and social progress, is not "ordinary" or "special object", but directly corresponds to the needs of society and personal survival, is to promote the combination of the spirit of science and humanism, to promote the development of society, the improvement of the quality of personality needed, is to promote the development of society. It is an intermediary process for the development, improvement and renewal of the human personality, which is the most basic bridge between the needs of science and humanism, and the development of the human personality to meet the direct needs of society. Both basic education and higher education have the intermediary duty of training "natural man" to become "social man", but one of the important signs of social man is vocationalization.

3, individuality

The foothold of vocational education can only be the reality of the "individual existence", the main body of vocational education, the main body of vocational education are real-life people, their real-life needs and abilities determine the purpose of vocational education, content, methods, forms, Their real-life needs and abilities determine the aims, contents, methods, forms, levels, etc. of vocational education. Only based on real-life people can we objectively analyze the external phenomenon and internal law of vocational education. Whether it is ideal vocational education or realistic vocational education, it is unscientific if it leaves its basic logical starting point, i.e. real-life people.

4. Historicity

Vocational education is a contradictory unity of historicity and transcendence. Historicity is an intrinsic part of vocational education, vocational education is always subject to a certain historical premise of traction and constraints, vocational education can not exist and develop in a "vacuum". Vocational education has always been restricted vocational education, recognizing the historicity of vocational education means that vocational education is "limited" and "non-supremacy", but this does not mean that vocational education has lost its transcendence, on the contrary, it is vocational education that has lost its transcendence. On the contrary, it is vocational education and its resulting finiteness and non-supremacy that provides real freedom and possibility for people to develop vocational education. It can be said that the historicity of vocational education provides real possibility for its unlimited openness, and vocational education is the development of the process of transcending the finiteness in the process of finiteness and opening up the space of self-transcendence continuously.

5. Practicality

Vocational education is a practice guided by reason, which can be divided into practical reason and poetic reason. The practical rationality of vocational education focuses on educational methods, techniques and experiences, on the benefits of vocational education (including economic and social benefits, etc.), on the reality of individual students, and on being based on and returning to real life. The poetic rationality of vocational education emphasizes "people-oriented" and "ultimate care". Specifically, it focuses on whether human "potential" is given full play, whether human personality is fully developed, whether human personality is freely developed, which can be said to be the ultimate concept of vocational education. The practical rationality of vocational education is not just for survival, profit-making and unscrupulous, the practical rationality of human beings is the result of the game of human survival for thousands of years, the practical rationality of vocational education is the historical choice of the game of vocational education development; the poetic rationality of vocational education is not a pure "mirage", it is a kind of ultra-utilitarian ideal value! It is a kind of super utilitarian ideal value pursuit, and it has a leading and restraining effect on practical rationality. In short, the practical rationality and poetic rationality of vocational education are different and complementary to each other, influencing and constraining each other.

The Teaching Advantages of Vocational Education

The first mature training system. Domestic vocational education has developed to a more mature level and is no longer as chaotic as before. After the national rectification and industry baptism, the existing vocational education institutions have strong strength in branding, funding, teachers and employment, training segmentation, precision and specialization.

The second learning time is short. Vocational education is generally only 1 year of intensive learning time, oriented to practical teaching, intensive training in line with the community in line with the needs of the enterprise professionals. So its learning cost is very low, and fast results, can quickly solve the problem of employment, pending employment.

The third return on investment is high. The cost of one year's time, 1 to 20 thousand capital investment. If you choose a good specialty, you can recover the cost in less than a year. For example, animation games, talent network salary data show that the average salary of domestic animation and game talents in 6235 yuan per month, the annual salary of more than 60,000 people accounted for 45.4% of the proportion.

The fourth skill + education + employment. Vocational education adopts the "skills + education + employment" set of reading mode, in the learning skills at the same time you can also read the self-test or adult education qualifications, skills and qualifications, also want to enroll in the civil service, postgraduate students to provide the conditions.