Technical Education
Technical Education
INTRODUCTION.
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The Directorate of Diversified and Professional Secondary Education is
framed within the general lines of the Economic and Social Development Plan
of the Nation 2001-2007, Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Development of
National Education and Reduction of Social Imbalances 1999-2006. National
Territorial Development Plan
1. Artisanal apprenticeship system: Which had its peak during the so-called
first industrial revolution and remained in use until the end of the 19th century.
Teaching was individualized or in very small groups. Master craftsmen took
on very limited numbers of apprentices and taught them while producing work
for their clients.
2. Manual Training: It began in the United States, Russia and other European
countries at the end of the 19th century. Instruction was given in workshops
for each craft or trade: carpentry, plumbing, blacksmithing, among others.
Each of these trades was analyzed from the perspective of its component
skills, which were then organized in pedagogical order. The courses
combined drawings, plans, models and a systematic series of exercises that
allowed students to acquire a specific skill, like a link in a chain. In this way,
students could progress with minimal supervision until they achieved the
expected level of skill.
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3. Progressive School: It was a movement that was born in the United States
and Europe at the end of the 19th century, as one of the many attempts by
some educators who wanted to contain the negative social effects that
urbanism and industrialism left on the dispossessed classes of those
societies. It was a movement for the democratization of schools that
attempted to shift the focus of the curriculum from the content of the
disciplines to the students and their physical and social development needs.
The idea that originated this method was to allow the student to find a
purpose or meaning in the learning activities they carry out.
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institutions. No governing body was created for the program, the organization
of the high schools for the new technical schools was maintained, the
standardization of teacher salaries established in 1969 was maintained, so
the profile of the teacher did not change either.
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modified time and again, without clear direction and without systematic
development of ideas, the administrative apparatus has undergone
substantial changes that have prevented full institutional development.
From very early on in history, a problem arose that persists to this day:
an education that was excessively academic, impractical and poorly linked to
the country's productive system. The lack of definition of the secondary
technical education sector and of secondary education in general continues.
Currently, with the proliferation of senior technicians in the job market, the
ability of an average technician to compete in the labour market is beginning
to be questioned. On the other hand, high levels of early school exclusion are
observed in Venezuela, especially among young people with fewer
resources. The problem therefore arises of how to give these young people
the necessary tools to lead a dignified life.
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http://www.monografias.com/trabajos14/administ-procesos/administ-
procesos.shtml - PROCEeducational process and the ongoing training of
individuals regardless of age, with respect for their abilities, ethnic, linguistic
and cultural diversity, addressing local, regional and national needs and
potential.
Primary education level: It lasts six years and leads to obtaining the
primary education certificate.
General secondary education: lasting five years, from first to fifth year.
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of students, as well as to continue their
ethicalhttp://www.monografias.com/trabajos6/etic/etic.shtml and civic training
and, in particular, to prepare them for their dignified and effective
incorporation into the job market and to continue their studies in higher
education. It constitutes the third educational level, which lasts 3 years.
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important alternative to contextualize the education of the population that is
studying the Basic Education Level, in an ethical framework in accordance
with the reality of Venezuelan society and culture, where the subject is
vindicated in being, privileging his capacity to create, know, do and propose
changes in the current structure of life. Transversality gives the level
responsibility for dignifying the being, which is consolidated in three
subsequent stages.
Article 43: Everyone has the right to the free development of their
personality, with no limitations other than those derived from the rights of
others and from public and social order. Article 55: Education is compulsory
to the extent and under the conditions established by law. Parents and
guardians are responsible for fulfilling this duty; the State will provide the
means for everyone to fulfill it. Article 80: Education shall have as its purpose
the full development of personality, the formation of citizens fit for life and the
exercise of democracy, the promotion of culture and the development of the
spirit of human solidarity.
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and regional development, and must create habits of individual responsibility
for production and the equitable distribution of its results.
Article 13: The participation of the family, the community and all
institutions in the educational process will be promoted.
Article 21: The purpose of basic education is to contribute to the
comprehensive training of the student through the development of his or her
skills and scientific, technical, humanistic and artistic abilities.
Article 23: In all grades and activities of basic education, the organs of
the educational community will attend to the formation of habits and forms of
behavior of the students.
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Article 4: In the exercise of the concurrent powers established by the
Constitution, and in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Law,
services currently provided by the national power will be progressively
transferred to the States.
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Its methodological strategy is focused on planning productive, social
and cultural projects that benefit the community, achieving comprehensive
training, supported by a social commitment to the transformation of the
country.
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A project that has had a great impact on the Venezuelan population
and that meets the expectations of parents and children is the “Canaima
Educativo” project, which was born from the need to universalize access to
information and communication technologies to advance in the
democratization of the use of laptops called “CANAIMITAS” as a teaching
tool, as a resource for liberating and emancipatory learning.
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education for all", defining quality of education: Construction through the
participation of the social actors involved, a quality Technical School
Education in terms of relevance, equity, social justice and flexibility that
contributes to the comprehensive training of students with emphasis on the
development of creativity and production.
The Fundei1 National Internship Program This program was the first
created with the initial purpose of facilitating the insertion of secondary
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technical education students in the work environment, and then progressively
extending this education-business intermediation activity so that the rest of
the academic levels in Venezuela can carry out a student internship (also
known in some countries as professional practice). The origin of the
Fundación Educación Industria-Fundei dates back to 1972, at the III National
Assembly of Industrial Chambers and Associations of Venezuela, where for
the first time the need to establish effective communication and collaboration
between the industrial sector and the educational sector was considered.
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Their role should not be confused with an apprentice of the National Institute
for Educational Cooperation (INCE), nor with an apprentice in the terms
defined in the Organic Law of Labor (LOT) that defines them as "minors
subject to systematic professional training in the trade in which they work and
without having previously graduated from training courses for said trade
before their placement."
( LOT. Article 267) From the point of view of society as a whole, not
considering an intern as a potential worker in training, with a real possibility of
making a career within the organization, would be a sub-optimal solution. This
is why organizations that wish to use interns should consider this option
within a formal program to recruit potential workers who can begin their
training process within the organization in this way. Similarly, young people
who wish to do internships should prefer companies that have formal
internship programs as an integral part of their recruitment and job training
programs, because otherwise they run the risk of being underemployed
without the possibility of later accessing a position within the organization.
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Well-structured internship programs are a very useful option to connect
the academic world with the productive and social reality of the country, to
reduce labor costs in organizations and provide them with a young, malleable
workforce and to raise the qualification level of the population seeking work
for the first time. Ultimately, they are a win-win option.
Prior analysis of the target group. The teaching staff of the ETR is
characterized by being an eclectic team of professionals, most of whom are
graduates of undergraduate studies in the area of Technical Education in its
various specialties; in addition to a significant percentage of professionals
from specialized areas with a teaching component and a small number that
corresponds to technical personnel with proven experience in different ETR
mentions. This teaching group, for the most part, works in parallel in other
educational institutions, whether public or private, which considerably reduces
the time they could devote to teacher training and updating.
PROPOSAL.
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Rodríguez (1974), referred to by Vélez and López (2004), explains that
he found four types of student dropout: absolute student dropout or mortality,
which corresponds to student withdrawals for academic or other reasons;
relative student dropout or mortality, referring to the proportion between
students who drop out and the total number of enrolled students; absolute
academic dropout, which would be the number of students who do not pass
the following academic semester in which they are enrolled, because they
withdrew from the university or failed courses and did not accumulate the
total number of credits required to advance to the following semester, and
finally relative academic dropout, which is the relationship between the
number of students who do not pass the following academic semester, with
respect to the total number of enrolled students in any academic semester.
For their part, Magenzo and Toledo in 1990, say that desertion "is
considered a psychosocial phenomenon, and as such is complex, it combines
structural, social, community, family and individual aspects, and above all it is
related to the social and political structure and the ideology that the State tries
to impose."
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the problem and delve into the ways to solve it in the pedagogical field, the
following scientific questions are assumed:
2.- Diagnosis of dropout rates in technical schools and their possible causes,
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queessurveys and
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recoldat.shtml - entrev with teachers and managers. Students and parents.
Due to its approach, it is part of a dialectical approach and due to its purpose,
it has http://www.monografias.com/trabajos34/el-caracter/el-caracter.shtmlan
explanatory character in trying to offer a proposed solution to the
aforementioned scientific problem.
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CONCLUSION.
The strategic lines of the educational sector indicate the aspects that
justify the positioning of the Teaching State as rector and guarantor of the
quality of the educational service, both in the improvement of the teaching-
learning process, as well as the health, nutrition, recreation and sports
conditions of adolescents, young people and adults who attend the
Diversified and Professional Secondary Education level, emphasizing the
importance of deepening and concretizing the relationship between Education
and Work as the axis of national development.
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Date: January 2009
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