Vocational Practices in Engineering Education in the Russian Far East

DOI

10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.270How to use a DOI?

Keywords

engineering education; higher school; vocational practice; Russian Far East; Far Eastern Polytechnic Institute; practice-oriented education.

Abstract

The research describes the historical experience in organization of students’ vocational practices which are considered an important part of higher engineering education in the Russian Far East. Since 1918, when the Far Eastern engineering higher school sprang up, the discussion about how future engineers must be taught hasn’t terminated till now. The mission of engineering education having been interpreted in different ways in various historical periods, according to the existing system of values, made teaching approaches different as well. As a result, engineering education in Russia featured a number of reforms that gave the priority in teaching to either an ideological aspect with a lot of political disciplines in a curriculum (the early 1920s) or a branch approach when highly specialized teaching was introduced to the detriment of theoretical knowledge (the early 1930s). Though the significance of vocational practices was realized at all historical stages of engineering education in the Russian Far East, their forms and methods varied in different time. The conclusion is made about the highest level of their organization in the 1980s. The local higher schools had strong connections with the industry getting the opportunity to send students to leading enterprises throughout the USSR. The author analyses also some new trends in organizing students’ vocational practices using the examples of the Vladivostok University of Economics and Services. The paper is based on the unpublished archival documents on the Far Eastern higher school activity in 1920–1980s.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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