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Enhancing the Professional Skills Development Project (MESGEP): An Attempt to Facilitate Ecological Awareness    
Yazarlar
Doç. Dr. Adem YILMAZ
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
Concepts change at an incredibly fast rate for human beings and more specifically in the world of education and whence for society. To cite an example, there exist conceptualizations ‘issued’ such as Industry 4.0 or University 5.0. The very standpoint here arguably directs the focus to andragogy “at the brink of the post-anthropocene” (Wallin, 2017) in a rather inevitable fashion. Integrating the salient elements of the notion post-anthropocene into andragogy of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and ensuring the ‘sustainability’ of learning and teaching related practicum in this regard is deemed essential considering “growing ecological awareness in the era of the Anthropocene could also productively influence all spheres of life-ecology, economics, education, politics and the social sphere–in the interest of sustaining the planet” (Le Grange, 2019, p.1). In this direction, this paper intends to discuss the optimal means through which the VET given to the marginal groups in Türkiye as part of a project entitled “Professional Skills Development Project (MESGEP)” can be enriched towards raising an awareness about the climate crisis and about the other ecological issues awaiting to be confronted. It is hoped that with the new amendments to made to the available curricula, the individuals as the participants of the project can gain more consciousness about ecological crises and adopt the relevant skills. Thereupon, it is thought that educating disadvantaged groups in this way will not only point to equal opportunity in education but also attempt to alter the previously held belief, which pinpointed environmental pollution is indeed an externality of education.
Anahtar Kelimeler
disadvantaged groups | education of individuals | marginal groups | post-anthropocene | Professional skills
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SCOPUS dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Participatory Educational Research
Dergi ISSN 2148-6123
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCOPUS, H.W. Wilson Education Full Text
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 01-2024
Cilt No 11
Sayı 1
Sayfalar 16 / 31
Doi Numarası 10.17275/per.24.2.11.1
Makale Linki https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/per/issue/80858/1358362