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Field-Oriented Vocational Education’s Effects on the Vocational Success and Job Production Ability among Students with Autism

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(1), pp.369-401
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

김길태 1 Jung, Hoon Young 2 Jung-Woo Kim 3

1나사렛대학교
2대구대학교
3성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study sets out to investigate the effects of field-oriented vocational education’s on the vocational success elements, which have important influences on the employment of students with autism. The participants include eleven(11) students with autism attending Y Special School for the students with an emotional disability in Seoul, and they received field-oriented vocational education’s at five(5) local organizations including one(1) library and four(4) post offices for four(4) hours a day, five(5) times a week through forty three(43) weeks in total during the period between March 2, 2009 and December 31, 2009. Then, they took a pre-post test in four(4) areas of vocational success elements with an evaluation paper, and were put to direct performance assessment in one(1) area. The research findings were as follows:First, field-oriented vocational education had significant effects on the personal, social, vocational ability, and perception of employment of the disabled element of the vocational success elements. Second, it also turned out to be effective on the acquirement and maintenance of job production ability including job productivity and wrong performance. The results indicate that field-oriented vocational education’s around school should be activated in the community to promote the participation among autistic students in the community through work after school education. Based on the results, it was discussed that more specific methods and procedures about field-oriented vocational education are needed and further researches through diverse participants and research design and procedures be employed in the near future.

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