Personnel Development for Teachers of Technical and Vocational Education & Training (TVET) for Preventing Students’ Gender Violence

Abstract

Students’ sexual violence has shown an alarming signal. Therefore, teachers play important role in supervising their students to prevent them from being the victims or perpetrators of sexual violence. However, not all teachers are competent in providing their students with adequate knowledge about it. This article studies teachers’ perception of the scope of students’ sexual violence and students’ courage in committing sexual violence. The research result is used to develop personnel development for teachers of Technical and Vocational Education & Training (TVET) in preventing students’ gender violence. The research was conducted at the High Vocational Schools in the ExResidency of Surakarta. The respondents are comprised of the counselling teachers and the school principals. Questionnaire and deep interview were employed to collect the data. The data were qualitatively analyzed using gender analysis of Moser’s model. The result reveals that the teachers have diverse perceptions about the scope of students’ sexual violence and their courage in committing sexual violence is also various. However, the teachers come to an agreement that the schools should be able to provide their students with practical and strategic gender-needs to prevent them from committing sexual violence. Thus, personnel development for teachers is required. Keywords—personnel development training; gender violence; practical needs; strategic needs