In master's thesis, I am writing about an almost eighty-year period of changing the goals of Upper secondary technical education in Slovenia from 1945 to 2023. I begin by describing the development of the current school system, namely from the second half of the 18th century onwards, but I develop the discussion in more detail from 1945. Thus, in the light of the new political-economic arrangement, the renewal of the existing educational programs in the direction of promoting economic progress began to be considered. At the same time, I pay attention to the circumstances that had such a significant impact on the design of the formal framework and on the consequences of these interventions. I am interested in how the political decision-makers reacted to the changes and what were the views of the pedagogical staff. I focus on the warnings of the following and accompanying, whether the expert suggestions were used or remained only at the declarative level. In the light of the division into general educational and professional-theoretical subjects from 1958 onwards, I compare the shares of one and the other in the subject books of secondary professional programs over the decades. In this way, we try to find out which contents have taken the majority share in a certain decade or in a certain political system. At the same time, we also devote myself to changing the goals in the curricula and knowledge catalogs for the Slovenian language or Slovenian in the mentioned programs, as I am interested in the consistency of their changes according to different formal orientations. I wonder what goals and what circumstances prompted the changes in the mentioned area. I am thinking about the future of vocational secondary education programs. I note that the design of these educational programs comes from the time of economic and political regulation of the post-war period, i.e. from the 1950s. I doubt that the existing system can work well even in a modern capitalist system.
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