Industrial Practice Partnership Model (A Multi Case Study at Vocational High School 4 And 5 Banjarmasin)

Abstract

This research intends to define relationships in vocational schools and how they should be managed so that schools can form collaborations outside of their region. This study is a descriptive qualitative study with several cases. The study's informants included the principal, vice principal of public relations, and vice principal of curriculum. The data was collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation, which were analyzed using an interactive data analysis model developed by Miles and Huberman (2006). The stages of research were data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing, with data triangulation used to check the validity of the findings. The findings revealed that (1) the school did a needs study prior to preparing the partnership program. Curriculum synchronization between schools and Business World/ Industrial World is very necessary for the partnership program to run well, (2) the form of school partnership with du/in the form of student pre-employment, teacher internships, guest teachers, teaching factories and absorption of graduates, (3) the quality of school partnerships is very good with the fulfillment of all indicators.( 4) obstacles that arise during pre-employment such as students are not facilitated and schools have difficulty in synchronizing the curriculum with Business World/ Industrial World because the representatives who come to the school do not meet the expectations of the school.