Promoting Self-Responsibility: Learning from Australian Maritime Engineering Student and Alumni in Developing Employability Competencies

International Conference on Industrial Technology for Sustainable Development 2017

工业技术;经济学

Lazarus, Daudi^1,2

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Pontianak State Polytechnic (POLNEP), West-Kalimantan, Indonesia^1

School of Engineering, University of South Australia (UniSA), Adelaide, Australia^2

关键词: Cognitive structures;    Competency development;    competency-enhancing activities;    Development environment;    employability;    Higher education institutions;    Maritime engineering;    Self-Responsibility;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/175/1/012224/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/175/1/012224

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The concept of Global Maritime Fulcrum has changed the national strategy to redevelop Indonesian maritime power, including the strategy of Indonesian Higher Education Institutions in preparing their graduates to enter the labour market. Learners as the centre of the competency development process should proactively take self-responsibility (SR) by participating in competency-enhancing activities to possess not only technical skills but also competencies related to knowledge, attitudes and non-technical skills. The purpose of this paper was to describe the concept of self-responsibility from the perspective of student and alumni of Australian Maritime Engineering Schools in their process to develop employability competency. Data were collected from 1056 participants through a web-based self-report questionnaire. The quantitative analyses have suggested that the participants highly appreciated the importance of SR. By internalized their extrinsic motivations into positive behaviours, students with a high level of SR tend to an effective capacity for managing their personal competency development. In addition, a self-responsible learner also has developed self-awareness of his/her contribution to the development process. Therefore, the SR practice that appears to be best developed in development environments that could help learners to possess a series of competencies that they will confront in their real-life situation. This study has the potential to enrich the development of maritime engineering education in Indonesia by suggesting that Indonesian students need to modify their cognitive structure and develop the capability to reconstruct their development environment.