The Indonesian government has established a regulation on apprenticeship program for vocational teacher in the relevant industry. It is a structured training program which aims to provide teachers with knowledge and competency required to achieve mastery of a specific occupation for strengthening their pedagogical role in vocational education. This article presents the current practice of the teacher apprenticeship in Indonesia, especially in vocational high school. The evaluation assesses three main topics: school-industry partnership, description of general issues in the teacher apprenticeship program and effectiveness of the apprenticeship program. The research approach used is narrative inquiry which involves several respondents from vocational schools and selected companies. The sample sizes of the purposive sampling utilized are 44 school principals, 24 representatives from industry, 102 students and 88 teachers. This research indicated a mismatch between the competencies of the newly graduates and the requirement of industry. The unbalance of theory with practice could be one of the reasons of that gap. It was also observed that the industry engagement in the vocational education is considered to be low. The school has planned a teacher apprenticeship, but it has not been implemented properly. The teacher apprenticeship carried out so far is still dominated by mastery of knowledge with little practice. As suggestion for the government, as a program, Apprenticeship is designed to be flexible and able to adaptive to the needs of employers and apprentices across the economy as a whole.
This study aimed at evaluating the implementation of a five-day working program at vocational high schools. This study described the implementation, strengths, and weaknesses of the five-day working program in vocational high schools using a descriptive evaluative method with the model of Contex, Input, Process, and Product. This study was conducted in Vocational High Schools also known as Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Negeri 2 Karanganyar. The sample of this study consisted of 126 students selected with a quota sampling technique and 10 teachers selected with a purposive sampling technique. Data were collected through observation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. The validity of the questionnaire item used logical validation. The results showed that the implementation of the five-day school program was sufficient but not fully achieved. The program can improve students' knowledge and skills and students’ activities are easier to be controlled. In the other hand, the school’ readiness to implement the five-day school program is not optimal indicated by not all teachers use interesting learning media and methods, and the teachers’ teaching performance during the day is decreased.
The aim of this article is to evaluate water absorption in bamboo fiber composites. Bamboo is hydrophilic, means that it easily absorbs water. In this study the bamboo fiber-based composites were developed using hand lay up method, with epoxy resin as the matrix constituent. Water absorption characteristics of specimens of bamboo composite and epoxy were determined from water immersion tests at several temperatures. Gravimetric analysis was performed to determine the moisure absorbed as a function of time at two different temperatures: 25 ºC and 50 C. The diffusivity of water in an epoxy bamboo composite was determined after reaching saturation point. During room temperature soaking, epoxy specimen showed the characteristic of Fickian behavior. Similar immersion tests on bamboo-epoxy composites followed nonfickian behavior. Changes in the mechanical properties of material due to water absorption were evaluated from tensile testing on materials with varied water content. It was found that the waterabsorption in all samples reduced the tensile properties. The degradation of tensile properties was greater with an increasing temperature of immersion. The results of this study emphasize the importance ofconsidering deterioration of mechanical properties in the bamboo epoxy composites during their application in water and possibly in humid environment.
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