Vocational Education in the Industrial 4.0 Era

Challenges and Opportunities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210203.081How to use a DOI?

Keywords

industrial revolution 4.0, vocational education, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity

Abstract

This resonance of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 has been predicted to peak since the 2000s, when technology and information innovation experienced rapid development. Industry 4.0 has a very large and broad impact, especially in the employment sector, where robots and machines will eliminate many jobs in the world. This of course must have been anticipated by vocational education that is able to answer these challenges. The purpose of this research is to get the formulation of the revitalization of vocational education in Indonesia in order to form the skills competencies needed in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. This research uses participatory qualitative research methods. Data obtained through literature studies, interviews and discussions (FGD). The results of the study show that vocational education is a program to support the realization of smart education through increasing and equalizing the quality of education, expanding access, and the relevance of utilizing technology in realizing skill competencies in the industrial era 4.0. The revitalization of vocational education is aimed to producing students who have four competencies, namely critical thinking (Cricical Thinking), collaboration, communication, and creativity.

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© 2021, 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  - Aam Hamdani
AU  - Aim Abdulkarim
AU  - Diah Cahyani P
AU  - Eki Nugraha
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/02/04
TI  - Vocational Education in the Industrial 4.0 Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th UPI International Conference on TVET 2020 (TVET 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 33
EP  - 35
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210203.081
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210203.081
ID  - Hamdani2021
ER  -