The Challenges, Motivations and Countermeasures of Higher Vocational Teacher Cultivating in the Post-information Age

Abstract

Global mega-trends such as automation, digitalization, green transformation and ageing population are bringing structural changes to labour markets around the world. However, most of existing researches are functional and cannot deal with the structural issue of vocational teacher training in the post-information age. This study focuses on the cultivation of higher vocational education teachers, analyzes the specific impact of the challenges and motivations of the cultivating of higher vocational teachers in the post-information age, and further discusses the countermeasures of the training path. The study proposes that the rapidly changing labour market, the aging of the teachers, the profound linkage with the labor market, and the increasingly complex system of higher vocational teachers' skills are all challenges to the cultivation of higher vocational teachers in the post-information era. The methods of enhancing teachers' motivation, focusing on teachers' teaching skills, fostering their innovative pedagogical methods and strengthening the top-level design of their human resources will promote the cultivation and development of vocational teachers' resources.