Vocational education on the development of current human resources, in particular about health teacher training

Abstract

Current educational developments have to go hand in hand with crisis management. In the field of Vocational Training the accreditation of the Teacher’s programmes are yet to be fininshed. Training professionals in accordance with the new legal framework is still a problem in many areas. The teacher of health sciences and health care programme at the University of Debrecen Faculty of Health is one of the exceptions.

Students at the part time training programme come from one of the BSc programmes and work in a profession corresponding to their degrees. A smaller part of the students already works in vocational training as a teacher or trainer.

All of the students have some professional experience in training either from secondary schools or trainings at their workplaces. However they lack professional competencies in professional pedagogy, methodology, psychology, management etc. This programme can develop the level of these competencies enough to make the students competent on the labour market.

The study outlines the changes in vocational teacher training in Hungary from a chronological, legal and practical point of view, and focuses on the development of current human resources in health education.