Challenges of vocational education and career education in high schools in Japan-from the viewpoint of career-competency formation for transition

Abstract

The concept of vocational education in Japan had meant vocational education in high school until the middle of the 1970’s and almost all studies on vocational education were targeted at the vocational education conducted at high school. As the result of the development of the special training school after the 1980’s and frequent mention of the need of vocational education in the university, in recent years, the concept of vocational education has finally begun to be used even in stages of higher education.