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Introduction
National Education System should be able to produce
students that are beyond the ability of 3M (reading, writing and
arithmetic). Even students with excellent result in academics are
not guaranteed that they manage the demands and challenges of
globalization of today successfully Education is to provide
tutorial not only to student who are illiterate and not able to
calculate but also to provide tutorial to students who are blind in
information technology (IT), identity, values and courtesy. In
the current scenario, the aspirations and the objective of the
National Education Policy are being clash with more problems
in the erosion of values among students (Ahmad, 2006). These
situations cause anxieties because in the process of achieving the
globalization of world-class education and development of
information systems, there are still younger generations that are
impaired. More accurately, we can say that even the students
are completed their study, but they are not educated, that is they
are knowledgeable and skilful but of no value.
Important for educators to applied value into their soul for
ensure that educators are systematic, integrity, and excellent
work at all the time toward to developing student for good
manner with integrity. Value, transparency, accountability and
ethical practice is important for society and future. There are
certainly that effective education systems are the main support
of the Malaysian society with integrity. Therefore, the
responsibilities of value among student need to be held with the
involvement of all parties.
Problem Background
The reductions of value, particularly among the students are
at the apprehension level (Tiong, 2006). The reduction of value
problem has led to the symptoms that are immoral and ethical
behavior. Juvenile crimes such as gambling, theft, gangsters,
extortion, murder, robbery, illegal racing, burglary, drug abuse
and abandonment around us are happen more common.
Values are still not satisfied applied among students at the
workshop on discipline problems reported by the researchers
and a local newspaper. People should apply values in their daily
lives and be imitation to students learn during their study at the
workshop. However, after going through the learning process,
there are students who still have a negative perception of
learning in workshops. The percentage of reduction values
increase among current student implying that education through
the teaching and learning was less absorbed with the values.
Some students who were break the rule may cause to
management problems during practical work in the workshop.
Statement of Problem
The patterns of learning in Higher Education Institutions are
more challenging and require patience and persistent effort.
Students are given the opportunity to determine their own
direction and educated to be more independent (Buntat &
Sanapi, 2003).
Some students have lost their value and replace it with a
negative value in their common practice daily lives (Ahmad,
2006). The rapid development, where working parents and lack
of love cause young people to a negative tendency.
Learning in the learning situation different from learning in
the classroom for the workshop is practical and filled with
equipment and machinery. Therefore, the practice of high value
is required. However, there are some students who not comply
with the regulations and this creates a problem in the
management of the workshop (Buntat & Sanapi, 2003). This
situation illustrates some of the students not accept
responsibility to the practice that had been exposed through the
learning of values since primary school.
Therefore, this research attempts to determine the extent to
which the practice of values among students can apply during
their practical work in workshops in the polytechnics.
Elixir Edu. Tech. 51 (2012) 10957-10960
Values in practice workshop in polytechnic
Ahmad Bin Esa and Aime Suraya Binti Sapie
Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, University of Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, education serves to provide guidance to students who lack in their values,
courtesy and politeness. However, good values are still unsatisfactory amongst students in
the workshop. There are students who do not adhere to the rules resulting in wastage of
workshop materials, and thus causing problems in the workshop management. This research
is undertaken to survey the extent of the practice of moral values in a workshop at a
polytechnic during teaching and learning sessions. The main instruments used to support the
research are questionnaires and observations. A total of 365 students were selected as
respondents from two polytechnics, namely Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah and Sultan
Zainal Abidin. Four aspects of moral values are measured: cooperation, crafts, physical and
mental hygiene and respect. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science
Version 16.0 (SPSS 16.0) with the appropriate mean, standard deviation and minimum score
t-test. The results revealed that the overall practice of values amongst polytechnic students
is high and there were no differences in the practices between the two polytechnics.
Therefore, researcher proposed several techniques to ensure students apply value as
suggestion model.
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ARTICLE INFO
Article history:
Received: 15 August 2012;
Received in revised form:
30 September 2012;
Accepted: 8 October 2012;
Keywords
Values,
Workshop,
Polytechnic.
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