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vocational, a.|vəʊˈkeɪʃənəl|
[f. vocation + -al1.]
Of, pertaining or relating to, a vocation or occupation.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 204 It [i.e. prophecy] was a gift, or grace, not so much personal as vocational; pertaining not to ordinary duty so much as extraordinary occasion. a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 16 It may fall in the vocational part. Whatever is men's calling or station..the crook in their lot may take its place therein. 1865Athenæum 27 May 715/3 With these appear the Tilewrights, a vocational name of Saxon Origin, and the Mayers. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ix. 159 The classes, whether social, vocational, or educational. 1910Proc. 1st Congr. National Conservation 164 In conclusion..the remedies:.. Vocational training in high schools. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 106 The enlistment of the psychologist's help for vocational guidance. 1951,1957[see guidance 1 c]. 1977New Statesman 2 Sept. 294/3 The IBA is attracted to the..Open College concept—courses in numeracy and literacy, vocational training for school-leavers, and other forms of further education.
Hence voˈcationally adv.; voˈcationalism, training for a vocation; educational emphasis on this; voˈcationalize v. trans., to direct towards vocational training.
1890Clark Russell Nelson xvi. 229 The seamanship of those days, the strategies, the devices,..are no longer of the least value vocationally. 1912J. H. Moore Ethics & Education 33 Schools should not be industrialized merely, nor commercialized, nor professionalized, but vocationalized. 1924Glasgow Herald 1 May 8/6 The primary function of education is wider than mere vocationalism. 1959Oxf. 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. 1971Black Scholar June 65 (Advt.), Vocationalizing higher education. 1979Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. 12/2 Of all the areas in colleges and universities that will feel..the growing vocationalism of the young, the humanities will be hardest hit. 1980[see subsidiarity]. |