The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents and workers with a certain cultural level and professional knowledge and skills. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.
Vocational education refers to the education of professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics required by the educated for a certain occupation or productive labor. For example, pre-job training for employees, re-employment training for laid-off workers, and full-time education in various vocational colleges, technical secondary schools, technical schools and other vocational schools all belong to vocational education.
Motivation analysis of the change of talent training objectives in higher vocational education
First, it is influenced by economic development.
After the implementation of the socialist market economy, competition and the law of value are the basic characteristics. With the further strategic adjustment of the national economic structure, many enterprises began to realize the value-added of products through innovation and increasing technical content. The establishment of market economy, the expansion of economic scale and the adjustment of economic structure have created greater demand and higher requirements for technical applied and skilled talents who are directly engaged in enterprise production and service. It can be said that economic development is the direct cause of the change of higher vocational education objectives.
Second, it is influenced by social changes.
The change of talent structure promotes the change of training objectives of higher vocational education. With the development of economy, there is a serious shortage of skilled workers, especially senior technicians in many industries, and the supply and demand of talents do not match, showing structural contradictions. In addition, the higher vocational talents trained by the old training objectives can no longer fully meet the employment requirements, which leads to a sudden increase in employment pressure. Transforming employment pressure into human capital can only be achieved through education. At the same time, changes in politics, culture and family also have an impact on the goals of higher vocational education. It can be said that social factors are the deep motivation for the change of higher vocational education objectives.
Third, influenced by the development of science and technology.
The arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, the rapid development of science and technology, and the progress of technology have made the mode of production more flexible, decentralized and intelligent. The new production and service positions put forward brand-new requirements for talents, such as solid theoretical knowledge, systematic skill training, innovative spirit, extensive compound knowledge, and craftsman spirit of Excellence.
Fourth, influenced by the development of education itself.
The development of higher vocational education has its own laws. The constant research on the nature, orientation, relationship with economic and social development and personnel training of higher vocational education by educational researchers in different periods has promoted the deepening of people's understanding of the laws of higher vocational education and the continuous development and improvement of the training objectives of higher vocational education.