Proceedings of the 16th International Academic Conference, Amsterdam

TO USE OR NOT TO USE HYBRID GROUNDED THEORY IN THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING MODEL IN MALAYSIA

RIDZWAN CHE RUS

Abstract:

Under Tenth Malaysia Plan from 2010-2015, Malaysia Government hopes that vocational education to be a mainstream vocational education and transform Malaysia to higher income economic country. The understanding of the formation process of skilled workers should be studied. In Technical and Vocation Education and Training (TVET), most studies using quantitative methods rather than qualitative methods. Hence, most studies only look at the surface and evaluation a training program conducted without in- depth look why and how it happened that way. Grounded theory is one of the qualitative research methods are often used. However, in this study, the researchers focused on the formation of the proposed model system of comprehensive modern apprenticeship. We used this method in effort to form a model of apprenticeship training in Malaysia. We will try to discuss issues and challenges facing by TVET researcher in term of using Grounded Theory. We provide guidance to new researchers who intend to use this method in their study. The use of grounded theory method will allow researchers to grasp the main concern and how respondent resolve it.

Keywords: grounded theory, qualitative, apprenticeship, vocational, TVET

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2015.016.022

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