Content of vocational school student world views from the perspective of educators
2014
Augskalne, I., Riga Higher Inst. of Religious Sciences (Latvia) | Garjane, B., Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy (Latvia)
The need for sustainability in society, as well as globalisation, impact of information technology, and changes in the economic structure raise an issue on objectives and tasks of vocational training. Socioeconomic transformations demand education, including vocational education, to be viewed as a process in which a person develops spiritually and in which life experience transforms into an individual paradigm – a world view. The goal of this article is to reveal opinions of teachers and experts working in the sphere of vocational education about world views of vocational school students and possibilities of world view formation in vocational education system. Interviews with teachers and experts were conducted after they were introduced to the philosophical and educational aspects of world view, as well as results of a study on the content of students’ world views. The interviews were analysed using the Weft QDA content analysis software. Results reveal unrealised opportunities in construction of the core of world view, such as personal experience of values and self-evaluation in the family and at school. Vocational education experts emphasise the importance of teacher’s personality, world view and self-evaluation, as well as interaction between teachers and students. Interviews with teachers reveal more sceptical opinions as they identify many disputable and unresolved issues related to organisation of personality formation process in vocational education.
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