Economic Grounds for Integration of the Content of Vocational Education

Abstract

This article deals with the problems connected with the integration of the content of vocational education, with the theoretical justification and implementation of the trend of integration of science and technology, education and production development of innovative forms and methods of teaching. The levels of integration of the content of vocational education are offered, including: General production, general industry, general professional and private professional levels. The economic basis for the integration and differentiation of the content of vocational training is the law of change of labor, the socialization of different types of production and the law of the social division of labor. The transition to the training workers in universal curricula and programs enhances the role and importance of general education, general technical subjects, and polytechnic education. In universal curricula, the structure and content of education provide a unified level of professional training of students. The specificity of it is determined by different types in the structures of equipment, machines, types of technological and technical process, in economic and social, psychological factors of activity of workers and specialists. The aim of the study is to identify socio-economic factors that determine the integration and universalization of the content of vocational education. The hypothesis of the study: Content provides a high level of synthesis of vocational and educational processes, the creation of intensive systems of vocational education, the formation of a professional-content is built on the basis of the integration of science and technology, education and production; on the basis of economic laws (the law of change of labor, generalization is different; on the basis of the structure and content of the work activity of the worker; the content will be universal.