Abstract
Vocational education is as important as traditional education. With the rising population and rapidly growing unemployment problems in the country, it has become essential to impart vocational education from school itself. It will cater to the future needs of skilled manpower requirements of the technological advanced society. Moreover, it is the need of the hour to shift traditional educational system to diversified education system. The state of Himachal Pradesh has emerged as a leader in the field of literacyandvocationaldevelopmentinrecenttimes. Thefarmandnon-farmeconomic activities have shown excellent growth in this hilly state. In this study, efforts have been made to find out the gender dimensions of vocational interests amongst school children of tribal Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The investigation showed significant values for the vocational interests of tribal boys and girls for agriculture, executive and household activities. The gender dimensions were observed to play an important role in the vocational interests. There is a strong need to provide vocational guidance at school level by introducing vocational education in the schools itself. It is of specific importance to the tribal areas which have already shown potential for inclusive developmental modules at household level.
Highlights
IntroductionIt is related to social, political, economical, vocational, philosophical and cultural aspects of life
Education plays a crucial role in the development of a particular society or region
The findings show that the t-ratios between mean scores were statistically significant for the vocational interests of agriculture, executive and household
Summary
It is related to social, political, economical, vocational, philosophical and cultural aspects of life. It imparts knowledge, skill and attitude needed by persons to work more efficiently in their own areas of competence. Vocational education prepares human beings to shoulder the responsibilities and avail the opportunities aimed at the achievement of a secure livelihood. The term vocation, as advocated by Deighton (1971), is reserved for the occupation chosen and engaged in for a substantial period of time because it is appropriate to the individual's ability, interests, value derives, personality and achievement motivation. Vocation has been regarded as an integral aspect of human life. The foundation for vocation should be laid when one is receiving education. It is so stated here that one of the main aims of education is to give maximum help in one's professional life
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