| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系 === 96 === The “Vocational Senior High School Alternative Cooperation Education Program” was established in 1969 with only one department within one school as the trial implementation. Other vocational high schools joined in later and the program has been in operation for 38 years and has undergone major social and economical changes and educational reforms. With the current conditions drastically different from before, this program, though underwent several adjustments over the years already, was defected in system design as well as program implementation and thus resulted in its inadequacy to bring out the expected effect.
In order to fine-tune the “Vocational Senior High School Alternative Cooperative Education Program” to suit the needs of the current conditions, and to ensure its quality as a usable, useful and applicable system for training of the vocational high school students for future employment, this research conducted a thorough exploration of the concepts and theoretical foundations of the Cooperative Education Program”, the development of the “Alternative Cooperative Education Program” system, the current economical, social and educational factors that influenced the program, and the co-op programs in Germany and U.S., this research then analyzed the program on its system and its implementation seeking to propose strategies for improvements based on the research findings.
1.The operation of the “Vocational Senior High School Alernative Cooperative Education Program” functions with: Objectives and regulations as guidelines, governing offices of educational administration as the planner and monitor, and the coordination team as the bridge for communication.Scholl as the running engine, collabrative industry as the focus of the implementation, students as the core of the program operation. collabrative industry as the focus of the implementation, students as the core of the program operation.
2.The reasons why the purposes were not fulfilled in the “Vocational Senior High School Alernative Cooperative Education Program”:Skilled-student positioning in the program was unclear; the cooperating of collabrative industry mainly medium and small business and lacked a good training system as well as trained professionals to provide guidance for the skilled-students.The professional certification system which qualifies the skilled-student for employment upon graduation was not well-established.Supplementary training failed to effectively expand the learning of the skills and competences, and the guaranteed minimum wages aggravated the unsatisfactory learning quality.The program’s being exclusively for the private vocational schools limited its function to serve only the social needs, and the school personnel’s guidance was inadequate in the in collabrative industry due to the lack of professional training.Industrial sector lacked the sense of responsibility in training the skilled-students et al.
Based on the research findings and conclusions, this research then proposed suggestions classified into 4 categories as policies, regulations, system and implementations. The implementation facet was further divided into the central government, the governing office of educational administration, schools, business organizations, skilled-student, Council of Labor Affairs and other related offices and organizations.
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