A CHALLENGE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR PREPARING GREEN EMPLOYMENT
ABSTRACT: Currently the
vocational education has been oriented to the educational processes in which
focusing on the development of the student in order to ready to work
professionally and ready to improve their self-potential in particular field
work. Meanwhile, today and future jobs in various business sectors and industry
are still growing and developing towards green jobs. If there is no counter and
solution for this growth of green jobs, then it would create a new gap between
the output’s competencies of vocational education and the qualification that
needed by various business sector and industry. After studying some latest
literatures, it was found that there is no any explicitly and concretely both
concept and definition of green jobs in the vocational education curriculum
(Curriculum 2013). Thus, this paper presents the urgent and such a challenge to
change the philosophy of vocational education towards green jobs and ecology
oriented.
Author: Rustam Asnawi, I
Djatmiko
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150188
