The Urgency of Transferable Skills Development for Vocational Teacher: A literature review study in Indonesia

摘要

Transferable skills are very crucial for the future employment workforce. Vocational teachers whose transform their competency to the students should develop their abilities not only limited on technical skills but also on the transferable skills in accordance with the future industry's needs. The objective of this study was to investigate the transferable skills development of vocational teachers by identifying the specific employability skills that helping students compete in a rapidly social changing and economic environment. This study was used literature review for research procedure from the online database. Finding revealed that transferable skills include communication, collaboration, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and learning to learn. Finally, some suggestions were proposed for future research on reforming and improving vocational teacher transferable skills development.