Vision 2030 and reducing the stigma of vocational and technical training among Saudi Arabian students

Abstract

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a critical role in developing essential labor market skills. In Saudi Arabia, participation in TVET has traditionally been stigmatized in favor of white-collar jobs. However, the importance of skilled labor has increased in Saudi Arabia’s private sector as the country’s Vision 2030 focuses on moving the economy from oil to investment. This quantitative study investigates the role of recent socio-economic transformations in changing attitudes toward TVET. Statistical analysis of a questionnaire distributed to 1007 TVET students identified a significant relationship between perceptions of TVET and gender, family income, and parental educational level.

Career ready?

“…In spite of the essential purpose of career development activities being to prepare young people for working life, surprisingly few studies have assessed the long-term impact of school-mediated teenage interventions. It is widely recognised that quantitative, longitudinal evidence exploring the impact of career development activities is poor (AIR UK, 2008 [193]) (Everitt, 2018[194]) (Hooley, 2016[195]) (Hughes, 2016[35]) (Musset and Kurekova, 2018 [154]) (Polvere, 2015[196]) (Whiston, 2017 [197]). Research studies using social science methodologies are relatively few and generally restricted to a small number of largely English-speaking countries.…”

Achieving Youth Empowerment in UAE through Incorporating Entrepreneurial Skills in Technical Vocational Education and Training

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Primary Professionalization of Foreign Students: Barriers, Stigmatization, Adaptation

“…The formed self-stigmatization has a number of extremely negative consequences, significantly disrupting the adaptation and psychological mechanisms of the individual, which has been demonstrated in some studies [18]. In particular, it has been shown that manifestations of self-stigmatization are associated with a decrease in such protective psychological properties as feeling hope [28], self-esteem [17; 55], self-efficacy [18; 63], impairs the moral character of the individual and undermines the belief in success [18; 21], leads to an increase in the use of avoidance coping strategies, especially the tendency to escape and conceal [55]. In other words, self-stigmatization is a series of prohibitions associated with social activity, which an individual imposes on his own life with a sense of inferiority and social failure.…”

“…Special attention was paid to the studies of stigmatization of national and sexual minorities, women, people with physical and mental disorders [16; 21], eating disorders [22], obesity among women [23], epilepsy [24] and HIV and AIDS diseases [25]. A significant contribution to the development of research on stigma was made by scientists who described the impact of victimization on the formation of self-stigma and low self-esteem in people with schizophrenic spectrum disorder [26], the self-stigmatization of people with mental illness resulting in low self-esteem and self-efficacy [27], societal attitudes towards people with mental illness, and perceptions of discrimination by people with mental illness [28]. Hence, in society, selfstigmatization is actively associated with mental disorders, although in real practice it is initiated by a number of other triggers.…”