1. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
I. Introduction
• A. Responsibility
• B. A “Useful” Education

2. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
II. History
• A. Cottage Industry - Making goods in the
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• B. Apprenticeship
• 1. Guild system - Middle Ages
• 2. Ben Franklin - apprenticeship academy
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3. Vocational Curriculum
II. History
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• D. Smith-Hughes Act - 1917
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• 1. GI Bill
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• F. Today

4. Vocational Curriculum
V. Curriculum Design
• A. Similarities to other Curricula
• 1. Subject Centered Curriculum -
• 2. Elective Curriculum -

5. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
V. Curriculum Design
• B. Factory Model
• Put in students---Process students---Get a finished product
• C. Current Applications
• 1. Practical Arts -
• 2. Vocational Education -

6. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
V. Curriculum Design
• 3. Community college -
• 4. University -
• 5. On-the-job training-

7. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
V. Curriculum Design
• D. Instructional Methods
• 1. Demonstration and Practice
• 2. “Mastery Learning”
• 3. Special Equipment, labs, group work

8. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
V. Curriculum Design
• E. Teachers
• 1. Work Experience and State Certification -
• 2. Employed in their vocation -
• 3. Minimal Teacher Experience -

9. Vocational Curriculum (VC)
VI. Curriculum Development
• A. World of work emphasized
• B. Five connections between Vocational
Curriculum and workplace
• 1.Teachers in workplace
• 2. Advisory committees
• 3. Survey
• 4. Placement Process
• 5. Corporate Training

10. Vocational Curriculum
VII. Curriculum Evaluation
• A. Employment
• B. Enrollment
• C. (Subject Mastery)

11. Vocational Curriculum
VIII. Appraisal
• A. Difficulties/Weaknesses
• 1. Ideology of Capitalism
• a. Materialism
• b. Reductionism
• c. Mechanistic Humans
• d. Exploitation ( Marx)

12. Vocational Curriculum
VIII. Appraisal
• 2. Utilitarian Ethics
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• a. Does pleasure motivate ?
• b. Does pleasure equal goodness ?
• c. It thrill seeking a worthy end ?
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13. Vocational Curriculum
VIII. Appraisal
• 3. Curriculum Design
• a. Education vs. Training
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• b. Technological lag
• c. Efficiency vs. Understanding

14. Vocational Curriculum
VIII. Appraisal
• B. Strengths
• 1. Capitalism
• 2. Utilitarianism
• a. Working towards everyone’s best interest
• b. Has stood the test of time
• 3. Vocational curriculum
• a. Provides skilled labor force in America
• b. Agriculture---industry---technology
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15. Vocational Curriculum
IX. Conclusion
• A. Continues in existence
• B. Evolvement of VC
• C. Questions