vocationalism
- noun
- /voʊˈkeɪʃənəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
- vocationalism emphasizes practical skills training in schools to better prepare students for careers.
- a new vocationalism
Examples
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According to historian John L. Rury, the Progressive preoccupation with vocationalism, which linked schooling with a division of labor based on gender, transformed women's education.
Academic text (1995) -
Many critics have long held the view that overemphasizing vocationalism and tracking to terminal nontransfer degrees has injured students (Brint & Karabel, 1990).
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Liberal arts education hopes to speak for the former and vocationalism for the latter.
Academic text (2000) -
These teachers further know that the virtue of vocationalism does the opposite.
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According to Levin, the second half of the community college mission was that of new vocationalism.
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In the colleges, the breakdown of coherent general education requirements and the emphasis on vocationalism have reduced the role of this ancient discipline.
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Substantial public policy reforms were needed because American education and vocationalism have developed within a laissez-faire state that does relatively little compared with other developed countries to ensure the well-being of the population as a whole.
Academic text (2015) -
Moreover, during the 1990s, Levin (2000) observed an increase in programs reflective of the new vocationalism.
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They also know that the vice of vocationalism is the same in any profession, including their own: a narrowing of perspective that shrinks the professional as well as the human horizons of practitioner and profession alike.
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The pressures of vocationalism, technology, and privatization are stimuli for change in higher education as well as potential threats to the continued existence of change-resistant institutions (Pew Higher Education Research Program, 1994).
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
The process of making education teach practical job skills
How Practical
Surface Forms
Morphology
vocationalism = vocational (transparent) = vocation + al + ism
The noun is formed regularly from the adjective 'vocational' with the productive suffix '-ism', so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
Vocationalism comes from the Latin verb vocare, which means 'to call', and from the English word vocation, meaning a 'calling' or job. So vocationalism is the idea of treating work as a 'calling' and of focusing education on training for specific trades or careers.