Philosophy of TVET

Education-for-work needs to adopt or develop well-defined philosophic principles that will guide, support, or create practice in changing workplaces. In order to meet the needs of the workplace of today and the future, education-for-work practitioners must be aware of the philosophies that promote both technical-vocational needs and personal development. Education-for-work practitioners must select and adapt appropriate philosophical views that will guide practice in terms of purpose; much like a master painter, who takes paint from a palette, mixes it appropriately, and applies the mixed paint to the canvas using experience and skill to complete the envisioned picture. Education-for-work practitioners must be more than transmitters of knowledge; they should be like master painters or craftpersons, professionals engaged in their art or craft and using their experience and creativity to design and make a quality work.

Links

• Principles and Philosophy of Vocational Education (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED029953&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED029953) Strait, D.Kansas, F.E.Hartzler, State Teachers College Emporia Kansas

• Philosophy of Vocational Education (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED408498&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED408498) (opinion paper), Fusch, Gene E., 1997

• The Role of Philosophy in Education-for-Work (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v33n2/strom.html) Bruce Todd Strom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Principles and a Philosophy for Vocational Education (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED250497&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED250497) Special Publication Series No. 48., Miller, Melvin D., National Center Publications, National Center for Research in Vocational Education, 1960 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1090, 1984