Rivera, Fermina T. (author / Central Luzon State University, Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines) and Central Luzon State University, Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05328
James F. Evans Collection, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 521-534., In the Philippines, the educational systems is being called upon to match its outputs to the manpower requirements of its economy. The secondary schools have responded by adopting on a national scale the new Practical Arts Program and expanding the vocational secondary education system. Education at the post high school level is quite another matter. To find rational justification for implementing the reforms considered, this paper presents some possibilities of vocationalizing secondary schools as a strategy for rural development. Its main thesis is that vocationalization consists in much more complex interrelationships of the internal elements of the educational systems and the social structure than was first thought, and that vocationalization of secondary schools cannot meet the requirements of a modernizing society. (original)
