论职业教育的社会认同和职业教育发展之间的关系

On the relationship between social identification of vocational education and development of vocational education

一些人认为职业教育的社会认同和职业教育的发展是一种因果关系,只要通过教育或法令的形式来提高人们对职业教育的社会认同,就能促进职业教育的发展,摆脱职业教育目前发展的困境.作者认为这种观点是值得怀疑的,需要探讨几个问题.首先,目前人们对职业教育的社会认同感是否正确,有没有更改的必要,其次是能不能更改,再次是即使人们对职业教育的社会认同感提高了,职业教育的发展状况就一定能够改善吗?通过对职业教育发展历史的回顾,作者认为,不是人们对职业教育的社会认同促进了职业教育的发展,而是职业教育的发展促进了人们对职业教育的社会认同,前者的错误在于把一系列的偶然的联系当作了必然的因果.

Some think that it is a kind of causality between social identification and development of vocational education. Vocational education can be extricated from the difficult position by improving people's social identification . The author thinks that it is dubious. Is it necessary to change our identification on vocational education? Can it be changed? Had the identification been changed, will the passive identification of vocational education be changed? By reviewing the history of vocational education, the author points out it is not the social identification of vocational education promotes the development of vocational education, while the development of vocational education enhances people's social identification of vocational education. Taking the fortuitous relation as positive causality is the mistake of the former.