vocationalism

[ voh-key-shuh-nl-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high school students.

Other Words From

• vo·cation·al·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of vocationalism¹

First recorded in 1920–25; vocational + -ism

Example Sentences

Vocationalism and the tendency to cater to students as consumers, in fact, are much greater threats to these islands than political correctness.

From Washington Post

Like any business, higher education has its own language stem and a lot of land-mine vocabulary—diversity, vocationalism, tenure, teaching load.

From Wall Street Journal

It already suffers far too much from narrow vocationalism and presentism under pressure to reflect our era’s “needs” or social aims.

From Time

The author, Carnegie President Ernest L. Boyer, points to the realities beneath such vocationalism: between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, now as then, some faculty members decry creeping vocationalism.

From Time Magazine Archive