VET MODERNISATION ALIGNED WITH PRE-TECHNOLOGICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL PRE-HIGH EDUCATION

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32405/2617-3107-2018-1-11

Keywords:

competent approach; future specialists; modernization; occupational pre-high education; technological education; VET; VET quality assurance

Abstract

The article represents VET modernisation problem as pre-technological and occupational pre-high education. The aim is to ground innovative changes priority approaches in educational sub-systems aligned with Sustainable Development Strategy “Ukraine-2020”, Copenhagen Declaration, Bruges Communiqué, Torino Process etc. The article provides characteristics of educational trends emphasising technological education for senior high school students modernisation. Modern approaches on personalisation technological education, professional career guidance for schoolers are envisaged. It grounds the necessity for structural changes in schools based on cooperation with enterprises, VET schools and HEIs. It emphasises the need to modernize VET in accordance with modern economy and education trends. The increasing prestige mechanism for working professions and professional (vocational) education as a whole is revealed. The article defines VET’s aim and its organization-pedagogical conditions, namely: VET schools management decentralization; setting marketing services; implementing VET education quality monitoring system; multi-source financing etc. The specifics for transition to applied training model targeting a person’s needs, national and regional LMs are considered. The attention is drugged to broad use of dual education within employers’ engagement; setting flexible training entities for formal, in-formal and non-formal professional education programs realisation. It specifies the specifics of creating information-educational environments, inclusive education conditions in VET schools. It emphasises competence-based occupational, educational and assessment standards development, designing new hi-tech qualifications, creating a New occupations and professions register, including “green” ones. Inter-disciplinary approach for projecting socio-cultural component of VET content importance is outlined and the need for occupational pre-high education modernization is examined.

Author Biography

Valentyna Radkevych, National Academy of Educational Science of Ukraine

Dr. Sc., Prof.

Director, Institute of Vocational Education and Training,

National Academy of Educational Science of Ukraine

Kyiv, Ukraine

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2018-10-23

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Radkevych, V. (2018). VET MODERNISATION ALIGNED WITH PRE-TECHNOLOGICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL PRE-HIGH EDUCATION. Education: Modern Discourses, (1), 118–128. https://doi.org/10.32405/2617-3107-2018-1-11

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING