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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Vocational Education

 

education received in higher, specialized secondary, and vocational technical educational institutions, as well as in specialized courses.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Institute's approach involved manual training in "agriculture and mechanics" (Croom & Alston, 2009, p.
Although Oleson was new to the Islands, he was quite knowledgeable of the manual training curriculum that was beginning to take hold in the United States.
The first section deals with establishing the Kamehameha Schools, which includes establishing the impetus for founding the schools as manual training schools, the will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, and the operation of the schools.
In Western Australia, he expanded upon his predecessor's tenuous progressive efforts while introducing manual training, Sloyd, (27) science, drawing and nature study.
Analyses of the subscales revealed significant training group differences for all of them: mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, and frustration; in all cases workload was higher for the manual training group (all ps < .01).
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In the old days the public schools offered something often called "manual training." Among the classes commonly offered was woodshop.
did not seek to deny children a chance in life, nor was he an industrialist seeking trained operatives on the cheap as many later advocates of manual training would be in the South.
By 1900, neighborhood settlement houses provided manual training and vocational education that promoted obedience to external commands instead of internalization middle-class values.
Probably the first free manual training classes in America were established by the Rev.
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