Wednesday, 16 January 2013

ULASAN ARTIKEL 1 - Mohd Ihsanuddin Jamhari


Authentic And Self-Direct Learning In Vocational Education:
Challenge To Vocational Educator
Mohd Ihsanuddin Jamhari
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Technical and vocational education is the one of the most skilful courses which is need to produce the people which is need to support the economics of the country based on the market need. More than that, these courses not only need to develop skill worker, but the student also needed to have a critical thinking for improving human characteristic in solving their problem based on the situation. So in this article, the author wants to analyse the dilemmas and practical tensions in implementing competence-base education in vocational courses. This article also based on the powerful learning environments that used on the competence-base education which is more focus on the both authentic and self-direct learning.

In this article, they have several characteristic in making the authentic and self-direct learning in the vocational education. One of the characteristic is the teacher need to formatting the vocational identity as the starting point for learner. As the practical skill need in the vocational school the author thinks that every teachers need to re-adjust their thinking which is the curriculum of the teaching in vocational education need more to skill work rather than base only on the theory. Next, the teacher also needs to create the practical skill more flexible which is not only based on the assignment, they also need to arrange for their student to works on their assignment based on the existing work condition. So the student will be able to see the real world of the environment based that related with the assignment. The teacher also need to be a coaching to their student and to make sure their student may be able to reflect what they learn from their real world of working environment. So in the end the student will be able to self-reflect and being able to developing their self-regulation skill.

From the article of the challenge of the vocational educator in developing student authentic and self-direct learning in vocational education, we can see that most of the characteristic more to the step for improving the educational environment of the education institution. Based on the article I mostly agree with the characteristic that they want to used in making the institution of vocational education have an self identity. It is because most of the vocational institution in Malaysia assign their institute as only for educational part. But for the deep of the technical and vocational institution, they need to provide the skilful student that masters on both theoretical and practical skill to make our citizen toward the technological people.

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