Publication: Internship education analysis of vocational school students
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2010-05-01
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The main purpose of vocational and technical education is to make the individuals gain; knowledge, ability, and practice
sufficiency which are needed for particular occupation. On the other hand the main function is to make the individual provide
financial income and with this be useful to society at social and economic ways. Vocational and technical education has great
affection power at development of country’s economy with human labor qualities. For this reason, in the developed countries
vocational and technical education has special importance. In the developed countries; for more strong economy and more rapid
social development, more qualified work labor is need to be provided. With this purpose, an effort is made to develop vocational
and technical education.
In Turkey, vocational schools are one of the most important education institutions at raising qualified human power. It is aimed
the vocational school students to have more theoretical knowledge than technical man, and more practice ability than engineers
by graduating with technician title. The cooperation between university and industry has importance at vocational school
graduates having these abilities. In the education programs; students must continue a part of their education at industrial
companies for 30 working days duration. This process is named as internship and it is necessary for the students to graduate.
Students can find various abilities during the period where they were at the companies.
In this study; it is aimed to analyze the expectations from internship education, and the gained knowledge and abilities of
Marmara University Vocational School of Technical Sciences students. According to this, an answer is searched to the question
“What kind of knowledge and abilities do the vocational school students gain during the internship period?” The universe of this
study is the students studying at Marmara University Vocational School of Technical Sciences programs. It is goaled to discuss
the education partnership between vocational school and industry according to the knowledge and abilities the students gained
during the internship period.
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Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler, Social Sciences and Humanities, Sosyal Bilimler (SOC), Social Sciences (SOC), Vocational school, vocational education, internship, industry cooperation, vocational application
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Polat Z., Öznaz D., Ulusman L., Oral B., Tektaş N., Çınar A., Uzmanoğlu M. S., Acar Büyükpehlivan G., İşgören A. N., "Internship education analysis of vocational school students", Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, cilt.2, sa.2, ss.3452-3456, 2010