A Study On Modern Vocational Education Ethics

Ethics refers to standards to regulate relation among people, between one and self,between human beings and nature, with the ultimate goal to make a better life and guidepeople in their day-to-day activities. Concerning of individual happiness of vocationaleducation learners, vocational education ethics is about their initiative, flexibility, creativityand responsibility in their professional activities. Studying modern vocational education fromethical perspective, the thesis is to find the ethical spirit in it and explore effective ways torealize it. Society builders and professional people should be independent, self-action, andresponsible, so people who receive modern vocational education should be subject withemotion and soul rather than tools or dependent beings. In addition to the introduction, thisstudy consists of three other parts.The first part is a basic theoretical research, including the second chapter of relatedresearches and the third chapter on basic concepts. Exploring the source of the vocationaleducation ethics spirit from the start, it focuses on ethical element contained in primitivenatural, simple survival education, ethical spirit of traditional apprenticeship education whichreflects the love and the pursuit of teaching holistic, the ethical “paradox” of modernvocational education and ethical pursuit of individual and social values. Spiritual motivationin social progress is the pursuit of a better life, and the development of vocational education isalso a part of the pursuit of truly wonderful life. Chapter three explores the connotation ofhumanity, rationality and justice of the modern vocational education, with a reference to aethical concept tool, while the later two are based on the first one and the core of the first oneis the establishment of principal value by vocational education learners.The second part, including chapter4and5, is about ethical challenges faced by vocationaleducation from macro and micro aspects. While constructing full market, vocationaleducation is facing following ethical challenges, expansion of human subjectivity andliberation of morality pushed by contract spirit, conflicts between “waiting for a better price”and career aspirations and beliefs, obscuring and fragmenting “humanity” in vocationaleducation and its toolization, the existence of “list style” causing isolation among people,between human beings and the nature, between people and oneself. What is more, thechallenges are worsen by regional uneven development of vocational education and somepriority policy, thus China’s vocational education is in an ethical dilemma, controlled byutilitarianism and pragmatism, losing oneself, and learners losing their principal value. In Chapter five, qualitative research is the main method. From interviews, some ethical problemsin vocational education have been revealed and analyzed, like fragmentation of humanity,unfairness and the pursuit of unintegrality. The third part is chapter6, taking modernvocational education ethics regression into consideration. The return of modern vocationaleducation ethical spirit is to develop the "subjectivity" of quasi-professional people and topass and innovate "green" professional culture. The following points should be carried out tomake the return come true: the purpose of vocational education should be beyondutilitarianism and toolization viewpoint for the pursuit of happiness.