Abstract:

Internship is a type of education that aims to increase the skills of students in vocational high school. The intership process causes students to be laboring force in some types of school not in terms of rights but in terms of working. In this study, the internship processes of vocational high school students were examined. For this purpose, a quanlitative study was conducted with semi-structured interwiew form, with a total of 20 participants, incuding 12 vocational high school graduates and 8 vocational high school teachers. As a result of this study, it was found that in some school types, students and parents preferred the school for the student to learn a vocation and get a job. However, the student’s low score in the placement exam is generally effective in the choosing other vocational high schools. Student’ getting a high school diploma is the main purpose. There is no aim of the student acquire a profession. Another result is that the internship process of the students differs according to the type of school. Students’ internship periods, times, finding the institution, internship checks, Works to be done during internship process are different. In some school types, the student in the internship process works like a worker. In some other school types, internship is a type of course that must be passed. Vocational education is an expensive type od education and it is not economical to direct students to vocational education who don’t want to work in this field. Students’ abilities and expectations should be at the forefront in this choice, which will affect the lives of the students.

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