Future jobs: Indonesian Primary Students’ Aspirations and Teachers’ predictions

The transformation of occupations in Indonesia due to digital technologies, especially in Artificial Intelligence, becomes a challenge for current educators to prepare their students for future work skills. This research study seeks to understand what students' career aspirations are and thei...

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Main Authors: Stefanus Christian Relmasira, Yiu Chi Lai, Chi Fuk Henry So
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foxton Books 2021-06-01
Series:The European Educational Researcher
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Online Access:https://www.eu-er.com/download/future-jobs-indonesian-primary-students-aspirations-and-teachers-predictions-11636.pdf
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description The transformation of occupations in Indonesia due to digital technologies, especially in Artificial Intelligence, becomes a challenge for current educators to prepare their students for future work skills. This research study seeks to understand what students' career aspirations are and their teachers' predictions about their students' future careers. There were 125 Indonesian primary school students and 141 teachers in Central Java province involved in this research. Students were asked to draw the aspiration of their future jobs when they grow up in the next 15-20 years, and teachers were asked to draw their predictions of their students' future careers. The results show some similarities and differences between students' aspirations and teachers' predictions. Both students and teachers have the same idea about the importance of jobs that emphasizing the use of creativity. However, students had a tendency to select their future careers related to creative and performing arts, whereas teachers predicted their students' future jobs as teachers and lecturers. The data also shows that students incline to draw the use of high-technology tools in their future jobs, whereas teachers tend to describe the use of conventional tools in their students' future careers. Further results are discussed in relation to the International Standard Classification of Occupations skill levels jobs.
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spelling doaj.art-04aaf5a22e934cc58628edd8a0578a802022-12-22T04:32:13ZengFoxton BooksThe European Educational Researcher2517-63232021-06-0142209225https://doi.org/10.31757/euer.425Future jobs: Indonesian Primary Students’ Aspirations and Teachers’ predictionsStefanus Christian Relmasira0Yiu Chi Lai1Chi Fuk Henry So2Universitas Kristen Satya WacanaThe Education University of Hong KongThe Education University of Hong KongThe transformation of occupations in Indonesia due to digital technologies, especially in Artificial Intelligence, becomes a challenge for current educators to prepare their students for future work skills. This research study seeks to understand what students' career aspirations are and their teachers' predictions about their students' future careers. There were 125 Indonesian primary school students and 141 teachers in Central Java province involved in this research. Students were asked to draw the aspiration of their future jobs when they grow up in the next 15-20 years, and teachers were asked to draw their predictions of their students' future careers. The results show some similarities and differences between students' aspirations and teachers' predictions. Both students and teachers have the same idea about the importance of jobs that emphasizing the use of creativity. However, students had a tendency to select their future careers related to creative and performing arts, whereas teachers predicted their students' future jobs as teachers and lecturers. The data also shows that students incline to draw the use of high-technology tools in their future jobs, whereas teachers tend to describe the use of conventional tools in their students' future careers. Further results are discussed in relation to the International Standard Classification of Occupations skill levels jobs.https://www.eu-er.com/download/future-jobs-indonesian-primary-students-aspirations-and-teachers-predictions-11636.pdfautomationartificial intelligencefuture jobsindonesiaprimary schoolisco-08
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primary school
isco-08
title Future jobs: Indonesian Primary Students’ Aspirations and Teachers’ predictions
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topic automation
artificial intelligence
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primary school
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