Buddhist Teaching in the Development of TVET Soft Skills

Prem Raj Sigdel

doi:10.7176/jpcr/51-01

Abstract

Soft skills are important aspects in technical and vocational education and training to equip employee full of ethics, moral, cooperative; as a whole to promote the production of industries. It has often been ignored deliberately as the influence of hard skills is much dominant in TVET. The focus has been oriented to produce technical manpower only so numbers of TVET graduates have remained unemployed. The problems of employee and employer have been at the peak thesedays. Staff are pioneer persons who have dealt with different sorts of problems in any organization. The misunderstanding between service provider and receiver has created problem in expanding business in the developing and underdeveloped countries. Buddhist philosophy of spirituality has been recognized as a panacea to solve such problems. We need to implant love, compassion, values and so on in employee which is also the demand of employer. Such a filial piety can solve the problem of misunderstanding among employee, employer and customer. Secondary materials have been used to develop this article and maximum authenticity has been tried to maintain while preparing the article with cross verifications of literatures. Keywords : TVET, Buddhist Teaching, Soft Skills. DOI: 10.7176/JPCR/51-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2021

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Background of the StudyThe concept of work and quality of workers has been changing along with shift in the demand of employer
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) was often recognized as vocational programs only ignoring its role about the development of human attribute
The literatures related to soft skills and Buddhist philosophy has been surfed with latest publications

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Background of the StudyThe concept of work and quality of workers has been changing along with shift in the demand of employer. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) was often recognized as vocational programs only ignoring its role about the development of human attribute. The need of students and employers have been ignored deliberately though they have “to work in teams, able to communicate effectively, able to solve problems and able to manage self” TVET is expected to address multiple demands of an economic, social and environmental nature by helping youth and adults develop the skills they need for employment (UNESCO, 2016)

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