Prosser's Sixteen (16) Theorems On Vocational Education: Presented By: Bryan A. Tumulac

Prosser’s Sixteen (16) Theorems
on Vocational Education
Presented by:
BRYAN A. TUMULAC
Sixteen (16) Theorems on Vocational
Education: A Basis for Vocational Philosophy
 Dr.Charles A. Prosser
(1871-1952)
 The first National
Director of Vocational
Education
 Develop and publicized
the sixteen (16)
theorems as a basis for
sound and successful
programs.
1. “Vocational
Education will be
Work efficient in
Environment proportion as the
environment in
which the learner is
trained is a replica
of the environment
in which he must
subsequently work.”
2. “Effective
vocational training
Industry can only be given
Standards where the training
jobs are carried on
in the same way
with the same
operations, the
same tools and the
same machines as in
the occupation
itself.”
3. “Vocational
education will be
effective in
Work Habits proportion as it
trains the individual
directly and
specifically in the
thinking habits and
the manipulative
habits required in
the occupation
itself.”
4. “Vocational
education will be
Individual effective in
Needs proportion as it
enables each
individual to
capitalize his
interest, aptitudes
and intrinsic
intelligence to the
highest possible
degree.”
5. “Effective
vocational education
for any profession,
Elective calling, trade,
occupation or job
can only be given to
the selected group
of individuals who
need it, want it, and
are able to profit by
it.”
6. “Vocational training
will be effective in
proportion as the
Gainful specific training
Employment experiences for forming
right habits of doing
and thinking are
repeated to the point
the habits developed
are those of the
finished skills necessary
for gainful
employment.”
7. “Vocational
education will be
effective in
Craftsperson proportional as the
Teacher instructor has had
successful
experience in the
application of skills
and knowledge to
the operations and
processes he
undertakes to
teach.”
8. “For every occupation
there is minimum of
productive ability
Performance which an individual
Standards must possess in order
to secure or retain
employment in that
occupation. If
vocational educational
is not carried to that
point with that
individual, it is neither
personally or socially
effective.”
9. “Vocational education
must recognize
conditions as they are
and must train
Industry Needs individuals to meet the
demands of the
“market” even though
it may be true that
more efficient ways of
conducting the
occupation may be
known and that better
working conditions are
highly desirable.”
10.“The effective
establishment of
process habits in
Actual Jobs any learner will
be secured in
proportion as the
training is given
on actual jobs and
not on exercises
or pseudo jobs.”
11.“The only
reliable source
Content from
of content for
Occupation
specific training
is an occupation
is in the
experience of
masters of that
occupation.”
12.“For every
occupation there
Specific Job is a body of
Training content which is
peculiar to that
occupation and to
which has
practically no
functional value
in any other
occupation.”
13. “Vocational
education will render
efficient social
service in proportion
Group Needs as it meets the
specific training
needs of any group at
the time that they
need it and in such a
way they can most
effectively profit by
the instruction.”
14. “Vocational
education will be
Group socially efficient in
proportion as in its
Characteristics methods of
instruction and its
personal relations
with learners it takes
into consideration the
particular
characteristics of any
particular group
which it serves.”
15.“The
administration of
Dual vocational
Administration education will be
efficient in
proportion as it is
elastic and fluid
rather than rigid
and
standardized.”
16. “While every
reasonable effort
should be made to
Program reduce per capita cost,
Standards there is minimum
below which effective
cannot be given, and if
the course does not
permit this minimum
per capita cost,
should not be
attempted.”

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