مجلة طبنـــة للدراسات العلمية الأكاديمية
Volume 8, Numéro 1, Pages 916-936
2025-06-01

The Role Of The Ministry Of Education In Influencing The Orientations Of The Palestinian Students Towards Vocational And Technical Education

Authors : Amjad Ziad Alsheikh .

Abstract

This paper aims to know the role of the Palestinian Ministry of Education in influencing the orientations of the Palestinian students towards vocational and technical education. To know this aim, it depended on the political Socialization Approach which is interested in how to build orientations towards a certain matter. The study was aided by the interview as a main instrument for gathering the data and on the official documents of the Ministry and its plans. The study concluded that the Ministry of Education had a positive role in influencing the orientations of the Palestinian students towards the vocational and technical education through the political socialization after the orientations of the Palestinian students were almost restricted to academic education. This role is represented in: First, introducing vocational education in the schools and changing the societal view of vocational and educational education by its seeking the help of the media and organizing lectures and professional workshops and crafts exhibitions. Second, in updating the study curricula to suit the vocational and technical education and to go side by side with the need of the local society for it. Third, by enacting a group of laws which protect the students who desire to enroll in vocational education in the future to work in the domains which they studied. Fourth, preparing the infrastructure such as schools and laboratories which suit this kind of education. Fifth, rehabilitating the teachers for vocational and technical education and integrating new teachers who are specialized in different domains of vocational and technical education

Keywords

Vocational education, Technical education, Role of the Palestinian Ministry of Education.