Understanding of Vocational Education Administrators and Teachers in Southern Border Provinces towards the Implementation of Vocational Education Curriculum 2024

Abstract

The research on the study of Understanding of Vocational Education Administrators and Teachers in Southern Border Provinces towards the Implementation of Vocational Education Curriculum 2024 aimed to 1) study the level of knowledge and understanding of the use of the 2024 vocational education curriculum of administrators and teachers in Vocational Education institutions in the southern border provinces and 2) study the problems and obstacles in the implementation of the 2024 vocational education curriculum in Vocational Education institutions in the southern border provinces. Quantitative research methods were used. The target group used in the research was administrators and teachers from 8 Vocational Education institutions in the southern border provinces using purposive sampling. The research results found that: The level of knowledge and understanding of the use of the 2024 vocational education curriculum of administrators and teachers in Vocational Education institutions in the southern border provinces overall and in each aspect was at a high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that the output aspect of the curriculum had the highest average value, followed by the process aspect of implementing the curriculum according to the criteria of the context of the curriculum. And in terms of input factors (curriculum), they had the lowest average values, respectively.

Problems and obstacles regarding the implementation of the 2024 vocational curriculum in Vocational Education institutions in the southern border provinces found that most of them have problems with insufficient study time at the higher Vocational Certificate level for teaching and learning (34.69%). Next, there was the problem of lack of process to create understanding in using the curriculum from the organization (24.49%), the problem of organizing teaching and learning with difficulty and obstacles in specific vocational subjects that were used for vocational training or vocational competency training that was not consistent with the context of the business and the locality (14.29%), and the problem of announcing the curriculum too soon, the problem of tools, equipment, and media that were still out of date, no textbooks, and teachers were not ready (6.12%), and others, respectively.