Additional vocational training was also provided in the form of apprentice or on-the-job training to workers already employed in industrial installations.
In the seven-year schools the curriculum during the last three years also included a variety of vocational subjects.
Vocational training had not kept pace with increasing industrialization, and in 1972 the demand for trained workers continued to surpass the supply (see ch.
To meet the demands for skilled and semiskilled industrial and agricultural workers, the educational system was gradually transformed, heavy emphasis being placed on scientific and technical programs and on vocational training.
All subjects, even those of a vocational nature, were taught on a theoretical basis.
Vocational secondary education encompassed the largest number of schools and was reported to enroll almost 50 percent of all secondary school students.
Vocational schools were usually organized at the locations of industrial enterprises and socialist cooperatives, and students were trained as skilled workers.
These schools provided a one- or two-year program of combined general education and vocational training in all the trades necessary for the national economy.
Shall all whose circumstances tend to force them into vocational high schools be allowed to drift in that direction?
The vocational schools in thirty states, with manual training, domestic arts, industrial work and agriculture.
This figure includes 55 million dollars of increased pensions for student-veterans in our vocational rehabilitation program.
A well illustrated textbook for use in vocational schools, trade schools, technical schools, and by apprentices to the trade, presenting the principles of house construction in a clear and fundamental way.
The professional journal of the teachers of manual, vocational and industrial education.
A text for normal schools or colleges and a reference for manual and vocational teachers.
It discusses vital problems in teaching the manual arts and presents the best current thought on the development of manual training and vocational education.
Presents the philosophy of teaching manual and vocational education in terms of psychology, social science, and economics.
The nation's gratitude must be effectively revealed to them by the most ample provision for their medical care and treatment as well as for their vocational training and placement.
The Secretary of the Treasury and the Board for Vocational Education will outline in their annual reports proposals covering medical care and rehabilitation which I am sure will engage your earnest study and commend your most generous support.
Thus, Massachusetts shows her vocational methods, while Oregon specializes on rural schools as neighborhood centers.
Its striking features are the great number of official exhibits by states, cities and foreign nations, and the emphasis laid on industrial and vocational education, public health, playgrounds, and the training of abnormal children.
Technical, trade, and vocational schools for teaching skill in occupations are fostered and nourished, with the same care as colleges and universities for the teaching of sciences and the classics.
The conclusion to be derived from this position is that a vocational or technical education is not enough.
The probabilities are that the social and vocational conditions of the coming generation will require that everybody be more mathematical-minded than at present.
Such specialized vocational training should be taken care of by the Cleveland schools, but it should not be forced upon all simply because the few need it.
If vocational guidance is to be a controlling social purpose, the manual training work will have to be made more diversified so that one can try out his tastes and abilities in a number of lines.
Let the manual training actually look toward vocational guidance; the social purpose involved will vitalize the work.
Naturally before one is prepared to use mathematical forms of thought in considering the many social and vocational problems, he must have mastered the fundamentals.
We omit discussion here of the specialized vocational training of women, since this is handled in other reports of the Survey.
The principal of one of the academic high schools emphasized in conversation the value of manual training for vocational guidance--a social purpose.
Looking at education from this social point of view it is easy to see that there was a time when no particular need existed for history, drawing, science, vocational studies, civics, etc.
It permitted boys, he said, to try themselves out and to find their vocational tastes and aptitudes.
They assist in the training for complicated vocational activities performed in some degree at least by most women.
The Federal Vocational Board granted him the right to take up a business course in a college.
He made but slow improvement until through the munificence of Uncle Sam he was given a new start in life through the Vocational Reeducation Board.
To find the activity that is natively interesting and yet suited to one's ability is the aim in vocational guidance.
In these days when vocational education is fashionable in theory and is attracting attention in practice, we are told that co-education and coordinate education are mistakes because they provide the same training for both sexes.
Everywhere in this current movement for vocational education we find the emphasis placed on making education for the two sexes just as dissimilar as possible.
Under the influence of deity cults, moreover, the social position of the priesthood changes, as do also its vocational practices.
The pursuits of war and politics were common to all free men; and, while admitting of class distinctions, they allowed no vocational differences.
But in the case of vocational distinctions, just as in that of class differentiation, the process of depreciation is succeeded by a tendency toward equalization.
One important outcome of a study of our children's ideals and ambitions should be the direction of their vocational choices.
At the same time, the vocational unions are to continue their cultural and educational activity, creating educational institutions and organizations which would answer the immediate problems of the vocational movement.
To confirm the decision of the first All-Russian Congress of Vocational Unions regarding the formation of organs of control, both local and central, under the guidance of the vocational associations of the working class.
The Congress authorizes the All-Russian Central Council of Vocational Unions to carry out this resolution strictly and without any deviations.
Through their vocational associations the workers have been called upon to organize the country’s economic life and to participate in the management of production.
A third man saw in the Vocational Bureau a means of keeping a control over employing interests.
Not long ago, I went to a conference onVocational Guidance.
Each child is asked to report concerning his progress from time to time; and if he does not show up, a vocational supervisor keeps track of him by visits to home or office, or by letters, written quarterly.
Job Lady is a generic term that includes Miss Anne Davis, director of the Bureau of Vocational Supervision, and her four assistants.
But it must not stop with vocational subjects alone.
This has been made possible in part through the service of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, which is cooperating with the States in a program to increase the technical knowledge and skill of the wage earner.
Special efforts are under way for the promotion of vocational and industrial training, the need of which is particularly pressing in the island.
I urge the new Congress--as it undertakes broad efforts to strengthen the economy as well as more specific tasks like reauthorizing the Vocational Education Act--to make the needs of our nation's unemployed youth a top priority for action.
The vocational rehabilitation program has been significantly expanded.
Already a considerable sum is appropriated to give the negroes vocational training in agriculture.
Large sums of money are annually appropriated to carry onvocational training.
We initiated and are implementing the first reform of the VA vocational rehabilitation system since its inception in 1943.
Rehabilitation and vocational training must be completed.
We have looked to agriculture and other vocational studies as the magnetic influences of our dreams.
The Community and the Member States shall foster co-operation with third countries and the competent international organizations in the sphere of vocational training.
There is no more basic part of the budget today than provision for more vocational training.
The matter of Vocational Guidance is the most vital thing in education to-day, but wisdom in this field is far to seek.
Aside from its value as a vocational guide, this volume will add much to the enjoyment of the family circle because of the facts that are gleaned from a perusal of its pages.
Needs purely a vocational training, but may be able to complete the eighth grade with low marks by the age of 16 or 17.
At the same time, as we have already pointed out, it is capable of bounding roughly the vocational territory in which an individual's intelligence will probably permit success, nothing else preventing.
Vocational guidance, use of intelligence tests in, 17, 49.
The time is probably not far distant when intelligence tests will become a recognized and widely used instrument for determining vocational fitness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocational" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: functional; industrial; official; pro; professional; technical
