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Publication Date: 2013
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A Development Dilemma for Secondary Vocational Education: Instrumentalist Tendencies in Human Resource Development
Wang, Dong
Chinese Education and Society, v46 n4 p60-67 Jul-Aug 2013
Human resource development is one of the theories guiding China's development of secondary vocational education. Secondary vocational education has always played a role in human resource training and development from the nation's founding to the present. In Chinese society today, however, there is a clear instrumentalist tendency in secondary vocational education's focus on human resource development, which has become a dilemma constraining the development of secondary vocational education. Our empirical study in the city of Dalian found that such an instrumentalist talent development trend appears primarily in the following areas: employment-oriented training models, interest-driven school management, and local conservatism in development planning.
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Labor Force Development, Talent Development, Educational Trends, Job Training, Training Methods, Political Attitudes, Student Interests, Specialization, Specialists, School Administration, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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