Vocational Students In Vocational Adjustment Research

With the continuous improvement of socialist market economy, industries in China have undergone full-grown development in recent year which helped China won the title of"manufacturing plant for the world". In response to the urgent needs of socioeconomic development, the vocational education industry in China has also gone through conspicuous and rapid growth as a result of its own efforts and the adjustment of government policies. Various types of vocational education have experienced substantial development, including higher vocational education, secondary vocational education as well as schools run by social forces. Diverse school-running forms have been used in these different vocational education types, such as three-year education, two-year education, short-term training, school-enterprise cooperation and interregional jointly operation of schools. As an important component of vocational education, secondary vocational education has been becoming the focus to which the society pays more and more attention.Meanwhile, we have to notice a fact that the graduates from secondary vocational schools have obvious disadvantages in job-hunting due to their special features in regards to age and knowledge structure. However, despite their comparatively lower level of knowledge accumulation and poorly cultivated study habits, most of them have enormous energy, thirst for knowledge, ambitious professional ideals and good expectation for the future, which are all noticeable facts raising the discussion upon their vocational adjustment among scholars. Using the means of case study, the author interviewed a few graduates from the Secondary Vocational School in Zouping County and investigated their transitional experience form school to working positions, and thus was able to systemically evaluate the status of vocational adjustment for them in the current study. Attention has been paid during the interview to enhance both reliability and validity, and the records were organized carefully and timely after interviews in order to keep their credibility. Via a series of efforts put into the investigation on these graduate individuals, it's hoped that the status of vocational adjustment can be revealed for the whole secondary vocational graduates group.This thesis has been divided in to six parts. Part One is focused on the definition of related concepts and literatures reviewing. Part two describes the principles used in object selection and data collection. Part Three is about the interview designing which generally falls into four parts, including 1) the influence of early occupational ideal in vocational adjustment, 2) the role of vocational education in vocational adjustment, 3) the effects of early explorations in one's career during vocational adjustment, and 4) the transition of roles and shift of concerns during vocational adjustment. Objective and result of this study are described in Part Four and Five. The author found that factors influencing vocational adjustment of the secondary vocational schools graduates can be categorized into tow groups: the internal factors (including early occupational ideals, career anchors, knowledge and abilities) and the external factors (including professional organization, families and partners). The vocational adjustment process of the from secondary vocational school graduates generally experiences three shifts of concerns: form"concern for tasks"to"concern for relations"and then to"concern for career development". After discussion on these questions, the author proposed a series of means aiming to enhance the abilities of vocational adjustment for the secondary vocational school graduates from three angles regarding to the graduate individuals, the companies, and the schools. And finally, suggestions and expectations for future studies were discussed in Part Six.Via this study, the author hopes to reveal the status of vocational adjustment for modern youth and to investigate the relation between secondary vocational education and one's career. Hopefully, the present study may be able to help improve vocational adjustment abilities for the secondary vocation school graduates. At the same time, it is also of certain theoretical significance for the research on vocational education theories.