1. THE NEW VOCATIONALISM,
WORK AND SCHOOLING IN 21st
CENTURY
EDU 453
PREPARED BY :
Name
Student no.
SOLEHAH BINTI MOHD SALEH
2012940157
NORAZIYANTI DEWI BINTI
MOHAMMED JAYA VIREN
2012530589
PREPARED FOR :
DATIN SITI HAWA BINTI OTHMAN

2. NEW VOCATIOANALISM
Comprehensive
Comprehensive
curriculum and
curriculum and
instruction effort to
instruction effort to
prepare students to be
prepare students to be
successful in the
successful in the
competitive global job
competitive global job
market and to fulfill roles
market and to fulfill roles
as active citizens in aa
as active citizens in
democratic society.
democratic society.
aacollaboration of business and
collaboration of business and
education to produce aabetter supply of
education to produce better supply of
employable graduates.
employable graduates.
In order to master the recommended
In order to master the recommended
twenty-first century set of outcomes,
twenty-first century set of outcomes,
classroom instruction will have to become
classroom instruction will have to become
more interactive and engaging than it
more interactive and engaging than it
currently is.
currently is.

3. FOCUS ON NEW VOCATIONALISM
Mostly about the acquisition of new skills and knowledge after
university.
Valuable in the long-run when graduate requirements for
particular knowledge and skills cannot be known. Developing
students’ capacity and disposition to learn is the best way of
equipping them for work in a future that is unpredictable and
grows more unpredictable as the planning horizon extends into
the more distant future.
Aims to satisfy a more stable labour market demand, for
people who like to learn new things and are good at so
doing.

4. ADVANTAGES
Equally applicable to long-term employment.
 Students after graduation it is only one part and
developing their capacity and disposition to learn
contributes to the other parts too.

5. ISSUE
Conservative politicians felt that education had been in
the hands of liberalists for too long and the emphasis on
academic over vocational qualifications was damaging
the economy.
The issue of whether education is providing the right
types of skills for the economy has come under scrutiny
from sociologists

6. PREPARING STUDENTS FOR MEANINGFUL
CAREERS AND LIFE ROLES
 Help student develop education strategies that will allow them to
meet academic requirements, develop soft skills, as well as attitudes
that are typically learned in applied contexts.
 Beside technical skills and academic achievement, other personal
development in students such as moral, ethical, affective growth,
continues learning attitudes are also equally important in career
preparation.
 In future employment trend, employability and marketability of
workers are more significant than academic qualification.
Employee’s knowledge, skills, experience, and attitudes are all
contributed to an employee’s performance and value.
.

7. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
 The changing of work as well as demographic demands
students to develop beyond basic academic foundation to
include interpersonal, occupational, and attitudinal skills
for secure a good paying job.

8.  The three revolutionary transformations included:

9. WORK PLACE TRENDS
Effective teachers should help students make inform
career choices and gain necessary employability and
self management skills.
It is defined as help an individual to develop the
skills needed to make an appropriate choice in all
aspects of their lives.

10.  To succeed, teachers and career counselors need to
understand how changes in the economy affect skills
requirements on the workplace of the knowledge era.
 Lynch (2000) suggested four purposes of technical and
vocational education for up to five to ten years of the 21st
century.

11. These are:

12. CONCLUSION