The interest in people with disability and vocational rehabilitation is our responsibility, and it is important to help them have the same rights and duties as normal people do by helping them to be able to show their physical, mental, social, and vocational ability as a social technician, not being shunned from the society.
For the vocational rehabilitation of people with disability, the dignity of man and the joint and several liability for their work are needed. To build the welfare society and country, Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled should collect the trainees according to the patterns of disability, divide them into 'mild' and 'severe', and educate them in commission in the public vocational schools and vocational institutions for the disabled under the control of KEPAD. In other words, vocational education must be focused more on the individualized education rather than discriminative technical training. For the technical education for the disabled must be appropriate to the conditions of disability, vocational rehabilitation services should be done by proposing the various study methods of the structure of the industrial spots and proposing the occupational categories. Therefore, the technical education must be offered as a part of the on-the-job training so that every trainees can get jobs from the labor-intensive industry to the service industry on completing the training course: for this it is required to offer the future-oriented occupational categories enabling the trainees to participate in competitive and satisfactory social activities according to their ability.
An emphasis has been placed on actuality in the educational-industrial collaboration to keep a close relation between vocational schools and industrial sport so that the trainees can exert their ability to the utmost extent.
This thesis is to study several planned elements of the vocational education for the people with physical disability. If the trainees have the latent ability according to their disabilities, they must be given opportunities to get jobs by maximizing it so that they can accomplish the economic stability and the self-development as labors, not receiving benefaction from the government.
Therefore, for the vocational rehabilitation of people with disability, the individualized service should be provided. In particular, this study seeks to find the direction of vocational education focusing on the technical education of the precious metalsmithing training department.
Two vocational institutions for people with disability were selected to review the technical education curriculum and the present state, analyze the recognition on the technical education and satisfaction degree, and propose the problems and the directions of the technical education in the future. It is desired that this thesis be used as basic data in offering technical education to people with disability who have the potential ability of vocation in the field of the precious metalsmithing.
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