Moderated e-Forum discussion on TVET teacher education [Edit]

UNEVOC e-Forum, 25 June - 6 July 2012

The 3rd moderator-driven discussion will take place from 25 June to 6 July 2012 on the UNEVOC e-Forum (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/forum.php). The topic of the discussion is ‘TVET Teacher education’.

UNESCO and its Member countries consider teacher education as one of its principal priorities. The Shanghai Consensus (http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/3TVET-outcomes.pdf), which was drawn on the basis of the discussions held at the 3rd International TVET Congress that took place from 13 to 16 May 2012 in Shanghai, China, highlighted the importance of expanding access and improving quality and equity in TVET, and clearly states the necessity for "developing effective policies aimed at improving teaching and learning processes." Specifically, it advocates for the development of "policies and frameworks for professionalizing TVET staff, and develop and strengthen teaching standards for all levels." In line with this understanding, the 3rd moderator-driven discussion on TVET teacher education seeks to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this field, gather good practices and learn from experiences from the international TVET community.

The input from participants will be synthesized and summarized into a final synthesis report, which will provide directions for future research and programme work in this field. Your active participation in the discussion would be most gratefully received and we would also like to encourage you to circulate this event in your network.

Professor of Technical and Vocational Education Masriam Bukit from the Indonesia University of Education (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, a UNEVOC Centre (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/netw_dir3.php?browse=id&id=2969)) will be moderating this discussion. Professor Masriam Bukit has over 40 years of experience in the TVET sector, first as a teacher himself and now as professor of Technical and Vocational Education. Prof. Bukit has extensive experiences in the field of TVET teacher education and also contributed to various publications on this topic, including the recently published book entitled “Standardisation in TVET Teacher Education”. Before joining the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Prof. Masriam Bukit was responsible for TVET Teacher training development Education Development Centre] in Bandung, Indonesia.

Background resources [Edit]

Background note
Introduction video (http://youtu.be/W553SJVgzwA)
Summary of week 1 (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/Summary_of__1st_week_discussion.pdf)
Summary of week 2 (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/Summary__of_2nd_week_discussion_01.pdf)

• New Challenges in TVET Teacher Education (http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/new-challenges-in-technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet-teacher-education/) (Shyamal Majumdar, UNESCO-UNEVOC, 2012)
• TVET Teacher Education on the Treshold of Internationalisation (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001913/191384e.pdf) (UNESCO-UNEVOC/InWent, 2006)
• Teachers and trainers for the future - Technical and Vocational Education and Training in a changing world (http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---sector/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_161661.pdf) (ILO, 2010)
• Preparing TVET Educators for the Next Generation (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/educon2011-report_web.pdf) (EDUCON international conference 2011)
• Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research (http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/book/978-1-4020-8346-4)(UNESCO-UNEVOC, Felix Rauner and Rupert Maclean, 2009)
• Standardisation in TVET Teacher education (http://www.amazon.de/Standardisation-Education-Berufliche-Arbeitswelt-Vocational/dp/toc/3631586361) (Joachim Dittrich et al., 2009)

Resources added by participants

• Implementation Guidelines - Pedagogy innnovation (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/Guide_dimplantation_Pedagogies_actives_Decembre_2011.pdf) by Centre of College Studies Baie des Chaleurs (in French)

How does it work [Edit]

Once you have signed up and the conference has started, you will receive an opening email by the moderator, Masriam Bukit. You can then reply to this message and will receive any contributions made by other conference participants. Note that all messages will be checked by UNEVOC before dissemination, so there may sometimes be delays, especially outside UNEVOC office hours (9am-5pm CET). As Masriam Bukit is based in Indonesia, please also be aware that further delays are possible due to the different time zones.

How to sign up [Edit]

Please use the registration form (http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/subscribe.php?id=-1&fita=vcteacher) to sign up for the conference. You will then be added to a conference mailing list and will receive all contributions via email.

Note that if you do not wish to receive email notifications, you can also participate using the online interface by logging on with your UNEVOC account.

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