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Phase 1: Business Education as Vocational Education

Phase 1: Business Education as Vocational Education. Socio-Economic Background Leading to the Development of Business Education Curriculum. The business sector demands training for prospective employees. Apprenticeship training Private business schools.

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Phase 1: Business Education as Vocational Education

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  1. Phase 1: Business Education as Vocational Education Socio-Economic Background Leading to the Development of Business Education Curriculum

  2. The business sector demands training for prospective employees • Apprenticeship training • Private business schools

  3. Expanding economy leads to schools supported through the tax dollar • More opportunities • Industrialization • Urbanization • Women in the workplace • Expanding economy

  4. In general, the demands by society and the economy formed the socio-economic foundations of vocational business education.

  5. By the 1920’s, vocational business education was firmly rooted in the American high school

  6. The curriculum was transplanted from private business schools. • Big three • typewriting • bookkeeping • shorthand • “Others—commercial geography, management, commercial law, etc. • All vocational objective

  7. Then came the depression! • Two things happened that focused attention on basic business education as general education • The faltering economy • Low level of employment

  8. The faltering economy promoted fierce competition for the scarce consumer dollar • Credit • Interest • Buying motives • Consumer economics • Factors of production • Savings • Financial (money) management • Economic understandings

  9. A realization that a citizen is both a consumer and a producer • Must develop economic literacy for all citizens (general education) • Must provide skills to enable citizens to become better producers (vocational education)

  10. Low level of employment • The second socio-economic force that influenced business education at this time • Students stayed in schools longer • No jobs—skill subjects lost some of their appeal • Business teachers began to put more emphasis on basic business courses • Business education objectives begin to change

  11. Phase 2: Business Education as General Education and Vocational Education

  12. Since the 1950’s, the business curriculum should contribute to the goals of general education by providing: • Basic business education for all students • Vocational education for students preparing for a business career • Business education for students who plan to college

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