The purpose of this study is to examine the realities of the vocational education and students' career consciousness in commercial high schools and to suggest the efficient career plan of the students on the suitable of their capabilities and aptitude...
The purpose of this study is to examine the realities of the vocational education and students' career consciousness in commercial high schools and to suggest the efficient career plan of the students on the suitable of their capabilities and aptitudes in the direction of the reasonable vocational education in line with the current trend.
In this study, after having considered theoretical backgrounds of both vocational educations and commercial high schools' educations I conducted a sample survey of the students from the commercial high schools located in Seoul. The survey consists of issues such as the career consciousness and the actual conditions of vocational educations.
Among total 364 copies of question paper, 350 copies were collected. From them, 324 copies were analyzed statistically except for both insincere answers and no answers.
At first, this study found the career consciousness and the actual conditions of vocational education by frequency analysis. Next, a hypothesis was verified whether cognition of the entrance motivation, the career consciousness and the vocational education varied with sex and grade through a cross tabulation analysis, T-test and ANOVA .
The results of the survey are summed up as follows.
First, many students choose the present schools because they think that their school can lead them to go to college more easily.
Second, students are agonizing about their courses and do not know well their aptitudes and characteristics.
Third, most of the students hope to go to a college. In the choice of a occupation and a major, they would chose them based on their aptitudes and interests, but they felt that there was insufficient information about vocational educations offered by schools.
Fourth, students prefer their teachers as a counselor. But a course counseling is hardly achieved therefore, students are dissatisfied with that.
Fifth, most of the students felt the poor social recognition about people from the commercial high schools. So they wanted to have better opportunities of being employed or entering into a college.
On the basis of the above findings, the efficient career guidance is recommended as follows.
First, the systematic and reasonable career guidance should be carried out starting from the elementary school years.
Second, in order to find suitable jobs sufficient information about vocational educations should be offered by their schools.
Third, the career guidance should be carried out for the students hoping to enter into a college.
Fourth, it is necessary that students have their suitable school educations.
Finally, course counseling should be activated by including course counseling in the whole a course of education.