corresponds to the "double reduction" policy, which is the rise of vocational education in my country. In 2021, the state has made great adjustments to the development of vocational education. The general secretary instructed that in the new journey of building a socialist modernized country in an all-round way, vocational education has a bright future and great prospects.
Up and down effect, the whole society is making adjustments to obtain strong support for vocational education, and even the entertainment field has contributed to the promotion of vocational education. In the second season of
's "Let's Run on the Yellow River", a special program was released to introduce the current development of vocational education. In the
program, several stars went to Jinan Vocational College, Lanxiang Technician School, New Oriental Culinary Institute and other places to experience a vocational education course.
finally gave a speech in the auditorium of Jinan Vocational College, calling on the society to break the prejudice against vocational education and encourage secondary and higher vocational students to pursue their dreams with confidence.
From this, we can see the change in the society's attitude towards vocational education, but from the overwhelming publicity, people also sensitively feel a different meaning, that is: why does vocational education need such promotion and encouragement today?
In other words, is it because vocational education has been at the bottom end of education for a long time, so everyone needs such a large-scale publicity to correct their perception of it?
Chinese people's emphasis on education has not changed since ancient times. As the so-called "everything is inferior, only reading is high." Even in the era of commodity economy, people will still come from their hearts for knowledgeable intellectuals. respect.
For a long time, the society has basically reached a consensus on the definition of "cultured", such as "985", such as "211", such as "Tsinghua University", "Peking University", and then such as master's and doctoral degrees. Education" is not included at all.
According to relevant data, in 2019, my country's secondary vocational education enrollment reached 6.004 million, and the number of students in school reached 15.765 million, equivalent to 39% of the entire high school education stage; by 2020, the number of vocational education will only increase. The ratio of the number to the number of vocational high school students is roughly 6:4, which means that for every ten middle school students, 4 come from vocational education.
So, before vocational education was promoted on such a large scale, what kind of life did these students who chose secondary vocational education live?
one. According to the "Large-scale Survey Report on the Development of Vocational Education in my country", among the biggest difficulties facing the development of vocational education in China, the first is "low social recognition", and the second is It is the quality of personnel training.
Obviously secondary vocational students occupy 40% of the secondary education system, but in our lives, these students are undoubtedly "invisible". In film and television dramas, parents buy houses in the school district for the key junior high schools and key high schools around the community;
, after the end of the college entrance examination every year, shows the "good news" to the whole society in a high-profile manner. It is the key high schools in various provinces and cities, even if everyone's attention Focus on a middle school located in a backward village, and there must also be a "treasure son" who went out of the poor family to get into the key universities.
In such a social atmosphere, secondary vocational students, or vocational education, are actually quite unfamiliar to most people.
In addition, for a long time, due to the existence of large-scale selective examinations such as the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, the majority of students actually flow to different types of schools according to their scores: high scores go to key high schools, medium scores go to ordinary high schools, and low scores go to secondary vocational schools. .
Therefore, people have been accustomed to such a division for a long time, and have also acquiesced in the concept that "secondary vocational students are equal to low-scoring students". In such a cognition, it is self-evident how those students who enter the secondary vocational school will view themselves and how the society will view the secondary vocational students.
The low degree of social recognition has affected the ability of secondary vocational students to correctly understand themselves to a certain extent. There is such a topic on the Internet: Why are there so many gangsters in secondary vocational schools?
netizen "Sunny" gave his answer. According to him, heA teacher in a secondary vocational school. According to his observation, the proportion of "little gangsters" in secondary vocational schools is indeed higher than that of ordinary high schools. He believes that the reason for this is that the source of students is too poor.
First of all, the secondary vocational school he is in has almost no score line, as long as he pays money, he can enter. There is no threshold, which means there is no competition. The students here can come in and study without taking an exam. The school will not ask about the grades of the junior high school at all. The screening mechanism is lost, and the school has become a mixed bag.
"Sunny" wrote that many of the students who go to school here have dull eyes. In class, they sleep and play with their mobile phones. After class, they just sit and rest and stay in a daze. Those who don't fight and make trouble are already considered "good students". It's completely random.
In this secondary vocational campus, there is not a bit of vigor that young students should have. Each of them is like a walking dead. Going to school is just the last stage before they enter the society.
How bad is the source of students here? "Sunny" was the head teacher of one of the professional classes at the time. As far as he knew, among the fifty or sixty students in his class, there were hardly ten "normal families".
In the definition of "Sunny Day", the normal family means that the parents are still legally married. In other words, there are fewer than ten parents in this class who are in a normal marriage relationship.
After the arrival, "Sunny Day" even considered children whose parents divorced as "normal families." He said that some children in the class had very chaotic personal relationships with their parents, and some children didn't even know whether their mother was a "little four" or a "little four". "Little Five".
In class, the students behave very poorly, and most of the time, there is no guarantee of classroom discipline.
The problems that common high school teachers often have a headache, such as students' distraction, naughty, speech in class, students' puppy love, etc., are only the smallest things in "Sunny Day".
can be called problems by teachers, mostly students with serious circumstances, such as fighting with instructors, smashing the principal's car, promiscuity when girls leave school, plagiarism, group fights (more than two or three hundred people), etc. , these things that can be called "cases" happen so frequently in secondary vocational schools.
In such an atmosphere, students have no way of thinking about how to become better. As long as they are not assimilated by such an atmosphere, it is already a success.
two. Knowledge is out of touch with society, and graduation means unemployment
In traditional vocational education, students are taught professional knowledge in class, and theoretical knowledge and comprehensive literacy are not so important. This means that the so-called "knowledge" that students can access is very important. It may only be the most basic skills, which means that even if you learn these skills, you have little chance of using them in your future work. In
's article "The Dilemma of Secondary Vocational Schools and Countermeasures", the author mentioned that in some local vocational schools, unfair competition was practiced when recruiting students, and they promised students that state subsidies could be used to deduct tuition fees.
However, it is often difficult for the state subsidy to arrive in time, which makes many schools in a state of shortage of funds all the year round, unable to pay salaries and unable to pay for normal teaching expenses, thus seriously affecting the normal survival of secondary vocational schools.
It can be seen that it is not easy for secondary vocational schools to survive normally, let alone develop.
A secondary vocational student from a school in Shunde, Guangdong, faced the interview and said with a smile that the mold major he studied was actually a listed mold major.
has been in this major for two years. They have never seen molds at all. They can only see pictures in class. He attributed this to the lack of school funds.
In addition, in some vocational school courses, the content taught is quite backward. Nowadays, with the popularization of accounting computerization, accounting students are still practicing counting money. some chores.
These teaching contents are not enough for students studying this major to get systematic training.
In this regard, the principal of the school is right: secondary vocational education must be out of touch, and the latest and highest technological knowledge is reserved for undergraduates.
is obvious, also majoring in accounting, graduatedStudents in undergraduate colleges have already mastered enough knowledge to cope with the work content, while vocational students do not, it is no wonder that they will be blocked from market choices.
Some netizens who have studied secondary vocational school shared that he only went to secondary vocational school to experience what high school is like. In the school he attended, not only was he strictly controlled (to be verified), but he could not learn much knowledge.
The teachers of the school "brainwash" the students every day, saying that the students who graduated from secondary vocational schools struggled several years earlier than the normal undergraduate students, and when the undergraduate students could not find jobs, they would instead work for secondary vocational students.
But the fact is that the jobs that graduate students can find, vocational students may not even be able to pass the threshold.
The dilemma of not being able to learn true talents and being unemployed after graduation is also a major problem faced by vocational education today. If
wants to truly grasp vocational education from the root, in addition to social attention, it also needs to carry out drastic reforms on vocational education.
After the high school entrance examination in June 2021, many secondary vocational colleges in Hangzhou announced their admission scores. To many people's surprise, the admission scores of some secondary vocational colleges were even on par with the city's key high schools.
It is self-evident that the purpose of pilot secondary vocational schools in Hangzhou is to improve the source of students in the school, and at the same time increase the deployment of teachers' resources to solve the current situation of "poor students in vocational colleges" from many aspects, so that secondary vocational campuses are no longer the place to be. "Poor Student Recycling Camp".
Conclusion:
According to the "Manufacturing Talent Development Planning Guide" jointly issued by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, it is pointed out that in my country, the talent gap in the ten key areas of the manufacturing industry will reach 19 million in 2020. People, by 2025, this number will be close to 30 million people.
my country needs practical talents, and the development of vocational education is the general trend, but at the same time, it should be recognized that the reform of vocational education is not a one-time thing, to solve the construction of vocational schools in poverty-stricken areas, pay attention to the mental health and education problems of secondary and higher vocational students , in order to truly do a good job in vocational education.
Author: black cat