Vocational
[və(ʊ)'keɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [vo'keʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to a vocation or occupation; especially providing or undergoing training in special skills; 'vocational school'; 'vocational students learning to repair a motor' .
Edited by Kathleen--From WordNet
Examples
- It would be quite possible for a narrowly conceived scheme of vocational education to perpetuate this division in a hardened form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the past, education has been much more vocational in fact than in name. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We might point to the first experiments aimed at remedying the helter-skelter of careers by vocational guidance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such a vocational education inevitably discounts the scientific and historic human connections of the materials and processes dealt with. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Place of Vocational Aims in Education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the latter term may be used to indicate a number of qualifications which are vaguer than vocational ability. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the present time the conflict of philosophic theories focuses in discussion of the proper place and function of vocational factors in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Edited by Kathleen