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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v19i3.2356
A Retrospective on Educational Policies and Their Implementation in the Vocational Teacher Education Provision
Didik Nurhadi
; Faculty of Engineering, State University of Malang
Siti Zahro
; Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Nyan-Myau Lyau
; Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Abstract
Long-standing gaps of teachers’ academic qualifications persist despite changes and developments of educational policies the government has continually been making. The gaps eventually result in a gradual decrease in the quality of vocational school graduates, which has recently caused grave national concern. The decrease is evident in Indonesian vocational students’ lack of competitive spirit and skills in the national labor market. In an attempt to find a creative and effective solution to this problem, this paper seeks to explore and describe the educational policies and the implementation of standards by vocational subjects teachers in a developing country and those in a developed county, hoping that it will help vocational school graduates acquire professional qualifications. Using a critical ethnography, in-depth analyses on the professors’ commentaries reveal that it is common in most universities in both countries to select vocational teachers by following educational policies in order to establish reliable criteria for qualified teachers in the future. This teacher certification program seems to have positively influenced the welfare of teachers in both countries, but other daring innovations in improving skills and qualifications of teachers are still a great need.
Keywords
professional qualifications; certification; government; preparation; quality
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187838
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Publication date:
29.9.2017.
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