On Philosophical Characteristics of Vocational Education

Explaining vocational education from the angle of philosophy, making it have a philosophical meaning and become a philosophical problem. The philosophical features of vocational education are mainly embodied in three aspects: one is scientificity. The occupational activities determine the existence and development of vocational education, similarly vocational education reacts in the occupational activities for its criticizing and reconstructing. Occupational activities and vocational education, as a kind of contradiction, promote people's free and comprehensive development; the second is technicality. The philosophy of technology, as the philosophical foundation of vocational education, makes the vocational education have technical inheritance, technical practicalness and technical value; the third is engineering quality. In order to get ultimate goal of improving self-value and contributing to social service, we should teach and train the vocational educatees by technical means of vocational education, so that, as a social project, it has a systematicness, integrity and regularity. Through the analysis and exploration on characteristics of vocational education philosophy, it has responded to the question about the universality of vocational education and also expanded the range of philosophy.