On the Fundamental Paradigms of Vocational Educational Research

The fundamental Paradigms of vocational educational research consist of research traditions, framework of theory, faith about theory and method, and essential views shared by vocational educational research community. The establishing and perfecting of the system of paradigms of vocational educational research indicate the existence and perfect degree of subject of vocational education. This paper probes into the fundamental paradigms of vocational education—— essence of vocational education, conception of vocational education, basic problem of vocational education, in order to arouse a widespread and profound research on them, and to promote the establishing and perfecting of scientific vocational educational subject.