The Urgency of Transferable Skills Development for Vocational Teachers: A literature review study in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/ictvt-17.2017.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Indonesia; literature review; transferable skills; vocational teachers

Abstract

Transferable skills are very crucial for the future employment workforce. Vocational teachers whose transform their competency to the students should develop their abilities not only limited on technical skills but also on the transferable skills in accordance with the future industry's needs. The objective of this study was to investigate the transferable skills development of vocational teachers by identifying the specific employability skills that helping students compete in a rapidly social changing and economic environment. This study was used literature review for research procedure from the online database. Finding revealed that transferable skills include communication, collaboration, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and learning to learn. Finally, some suggestions were proposed for future research on reforming and improving vocational teacher transferable skills development.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mr. Marsono
AU  - Mr. Purnomo
AU  - Mr. Tuwoso
AU  - Maftuchin Romlie
AU  - Mr. Solichin
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - The Urgency of Transferable Skills Development for Vocational Teachers: A literature review study in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Vocational Teachers (ICTVT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 247
EP  - 250
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictvt-17.2017.42
DO  - 10.2991/ictvt-17.2017.42
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