vocationalizev.
/və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn̩əlʌɪz/, /və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn̩l̩ʌɪz/, /və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃənl̩ʌɪz/, /və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/, U.S. /voʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəˌlaɪz/, /voʊˈkeɪʃənlˌaɪz/ Originally U.S.
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a. transitive. To make (education or training) vocational; to introduce or increase the provision of vocational education or training at (an institution).
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society > education > [verb (transitive)] > systems of education
home-educate1849
co-educate1855
vocationalize1905
comprehensivize1958
home-school1981
1905 C. O. Althouse in Business World Aug. 413/2 Plans to vocationalize modern languages adapted to various trades and professions and other work of this character is now being actively arranged by the management.
1910 A. E. Winship in Boston Sunday Globe 6 Feb. 46/4 There is no public demand for specially vocationalizing the public schools for any class.
1917 Educ. Rev. Mar. 256 The tendency to vocationalize instruction in undergraduate college courses is lamentably strong.
1971 Black Scholar June 65 (advt.) Vocationalizing higher education.
2016 Daily Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 19 Oct. The flagship objective of vocationalizing the basic education curriculum..was never fully accomplished during the pre-independence era for several reasons.
b. intransitive. To introduce or increase the provision of vocational education or training; to become vocational.
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1913 R. Riordon in Craftsman Apr. 138/2 Calling upon the schools to vocationalize.
1917 Amer. School Feb. 48/2 I would go so far as to say that, whenever we start to vocationalize, we should vocationalize; we should not play at it.
1919 Proc. 24th Ann. Meeting (Assoc. Colleges & Secondary Schools of Southern States) 62 (heading) The tendency to vocationalize in the Liberal Arts College.
1989 S. Brint & J. Karabel Diverted Dream ii. v. 157 The administrators were impeded somewhat in their efforts to vocationalize by persistently tight budgets.
2007 R. K. Webb Conflict of Paradigms i. 2 The pressure to vocationalize..has resulted in an intensification of the division between the work of scholarship and the work of teaching.
2. transitive. To direct (a person or group) towards vocational education; to give vocational training to. Now somewhat rare.
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1910 A. E. Winship in Boston Sunday Globe 6 Feb. 46/4 There is certainly no ‘movement’ to vocationalize the children of the rich or cultured.
1924 G. L. Swiggett Cooperative Vocational Guidance 8 No attempt should be made to vocationalize students in childhood.
1980 I. Shor Crit. Teaching & Everyday Life i. 25 The two-year network has both strengthened and weakened the state's power to vocationalize the population.
Derivatives
vocationaliˈzation n.
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1910 A. E. Winship in Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 28 Apr. 462/1 (heading) Vocationalization in Massachusetts.
1942 Eng. Jrnl. 31 286 Now genuine vocationalization is yet another contribution toward motivating language more effectively among certain groups forced into a system committed to mass education.
2015 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 8 May (Nation & World section) 34 The value of perspective-taking and critical thinking is..one important reason why many have resisted the vocationalization of colleges and universities.
voˈcationalized adj.
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1910 A. E. Winship in Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 3 Feb. 125/1 If he thinks that he can only stay two years he can have a vocationalized course for those two years.
1959 Oxf. Mag. 11 June 458/2 We are so vocationalised now that we have begun to believe it is our true function to train professional scholars, professional critics and even professional readers.
2006 B. R. Barber in R. E. Calvert To restore Amer. Democracy iv. 63 The more pertinent issue is the compatibility of such corporate advertising and branding strategies with the putative goals and objectives of the university—even in the corrupted version that is the vocationalized university.
voˈcationalizing n. and adj.
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1909 G. H. Whitcher in Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 22 July 103/2 Vocationalizing means securing skill, accuracy, and rapidity by repetition until the control is almost automatic.
1913 Eng. Jrnl. 2 66 The president called attention to the vocationalizing tendency apparent in the English work of the high schools of the state.
1987 Sociol. of Educ. 60 96/2 Community colleges exert a vocationalizing influence through several channels.
2014 P. Jay Humanities ‘Crisis’ & Future of Lit. Stud. i. 24 A process that only works to accelerate the vocationalizing of higher education.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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