Principles and current standards
for programmes planning system needs
assessment
Principles, philosophy and policy are essential to vocational education and diserable to as –exist in a
harmoninms and congruent relationship.
Principle generally is defined as a
fundamental or proposition serving as the foundation for action or
source/basis of something in quality or
attribute. In vocational education,
principles consists of preferred practices in philosophical framer which
directs those practices with the underlying philosophical assumption
Principles and policy now exist in vocational education with an
apparent . principles of vocational
education are dentifiable and represent
generalizations about vocational
education with independent deas
Philosophy is no encompaising there principles and is
known as a concenptual framework with partenters of determination in the field (recelty , truth and value) severs as synthesis and evalution that
represents a system of values as a baiss
for making decisions tht projet vocational
education future. Vocational educators
cause philosophy to decide that
ought to be and what ought be necessarily different that what is. The tension between what is now done in vocational education and what vocational education ought to be doing is a compelling force for
improving practice
Policy is the medivein necessary for
philosophy and principles to become
operable without appropriate policy, the correct environment does not
exist for conducting vocational consistent with its philosophy and principles.
The
relevant Nigeria education booklet known as national policy on
education 4th edition (FGN 2004) contain
the naira components of philosophy, policy and elements of
principles of education which should be
implemented for the progress of education
at all levels.