A Study of Postmodern Situation and the Development of Secondary Vocational Education in Taiwan

• Main Author: 楊瑞明
• Other Authors: 田振榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17095537967897655195

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系 === 94 === The change of postmodern society will have certain influence on educational concepts. By reviewing literature, postmodern circumstances stress on : respecting on differences, putting emphasis on multiple openness, holding on the ideas of democracy and equality, encouraging based development, advocating eliminating subjectivity, reflecting on multiple methodology. The important presentations can be expressed as followed: （1）postmodern society reflects on the intolerances of generality, identity, and universal. On the other hand, it also stresses on complex differences and flexibilities.（2）postmodern society eliminates one-dimension subjectivities, anti-duality, paradigm regulations, on the other hand, it also emphasis on the educational ideas of multiple openness, destructing norms.（3）postmodern society critic on : the priority of science, the boundary of disciplines, the classification of knowledge. On the other hand, it advocates democracy and categories-integrated.（4）postmodern society is anti-hierarchy. On the other hand, it encourages the administrative ideas of based development and empowerment and deregulations.（5）postmodern society negatives the validity of instrumental rationality. On the other, it stresses the epistemology of anti-subjectivity. Over the past ten years, the secondary technical and vocational educational reforms have including : the transfers of terminal education, the enforcement of comprehensive high schools, the advocacy of high schools learning community, the provisional vocational high schools curriculum, school-based curriculum development, multiple admission projects. The presentations mentioned above responds to the postmodern society presentations. With literature review and empirical questionnaire analysis, this study identifies highly-relations and apparent on both “what ought to be” and “what it is”. More than 900 sample vocational high schools teachers “agree”that postmodern society presentations will somewhat influence technical and vocational education in Taiwan. By means of factor analysis, vocational high schools teachers hold the consensus of future vocational educational reform are : “respecting on differences”、“multiple openness”、“based development”、 “adaptive selections”、“empowerment”. The study can be an effective reference framework for related research and educational policy analysis.