APPROACHES TO TRAINING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN MAINSTREAM VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS
Tri Setiyarini, Ade Gafar Abdullah

Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia has around 3,000 Vocational Training Centers (VTC) operated by both private and government institutions. However, only a few of them have conducted inclusive training to include people with disabilities. This study looks at three VTCs under the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower (MoM), investigating approaches and methods used by their instructors to conduct inclusive vocational training. Data were collected from a virtual focus group discussion with eight instructors from MoM-affiliated VTCs at Central Java and East Java provinces. Data were transcribed manually and coded using NVIVO software. The study finds that three VTCs have collaborated with SAUJANA, NGO concerned with disability, to initiate inclusive vocational training. It also finds that only two groups of people with disabilities - physical and sensory disabilities - dominated the VTC. Therefore, the different types of disabilities of the training participants influence instructors training approaches and methods. Instructors, for example, used adaptive learning aids and equipment to support people with physical disabilities, as well as used adaptive software and devices for people with sensory disabilities in obtaining particular skills and competencies.

Keywords: Vocational Training Center- Inclusive Vocational Training- Instructors

Topic: Technical and Vocational Education