Explaining the components of the competency-based vocational training and analyzing its position in the non-technical competency textbooks of the second cycle high school technical and vocational and work and knowledge fields of education

Abstract

This study was a descriptive research with the documentary and content analysis design. Its aim was explaining the components of the competency-based vocational training and analyzing its position in the textbooks of the second cycle high school technical and vocational education. The research population consisted of the competency-based non-technical secondary education textbooks in 2018-2019. The research instrument in the document analysis section was the note sheets and in the content analysis section was the researcher-made checklist. The documentary data was analyzed by the qualitative method and the content analysis data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics indices in the Shannon Entropy Process. The results indicated that the conceptual framework of the vocational education can be formulated into the three components of knowledge, attitude and skills. Also, the sub-components of creativity and innovation, and the diligence with higher frequency were in the first rank and the sub-components of the situation perception and adaptation with less frequency were in the last rank. Also, attention to the components was different in the textbooks, with the highest emphasis on the knowledge (35.91) and the least emphasis on the attitude (30.88). Given the changes in the education at the modern age, the use of the Bruner Spiral Curriculum in the curriculum design and revision in the future editions seem to be necessary in order to pay more attention to the less-considered categories.

Keywords

• vocational training
• content analysis
• shannon entropy method
• competence
• technical
• work and knowledge field