英文摘要
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Abstract
Due to change with times and technology advancement, the traditional craft of woodworking is losing its ground. The most important way for professional woodworkers to pass on this traditional craft is to keep on its spirit. Today, the woodworking craft is passed on in two systems: apprenticeship and occupational certification. Apprenticeship provides hands on teaching from craft professionals and therefore makes it possible to achieve higher degrees of craft specialization; whereas, examination-based occupational certification, although making it easy to obtain certificates, can lead to the result of having more complete expertise but lacking in traditional craftsmanship techniques. Today’s workplaces of woodworking for decoration and repair are facing the problem of talent shortage. The declining number of young people who are willing to devote themselves to learning this craft is causing the emerging serious talent shortage and the gap in professional woodworkers. The reason why the shortage of professional woodworkers is the most crucial factor is that the progress of the other works is affected when woodworking for decoration and repair is not done properly. This makes it evident that professional woodworkers play a key role in various works associated with interior decoration and repair in workplaces.
In view of the aforementioned, the purpose of this study was to look into the current state and development of the professional skills for interior decoration and repair in the case study of how professional woodworkers passed on their professional skills, further investigate today’s employment environment for woodworking and the urgent problem of talent gap, understand education and training models for nurturing professional woodworkers and further improving their technical competencies, and explore professional skill systems and methods for talent continuity. The results of this study show that professional woodworkers, in addition to superb woodworking skills, need to have the ability to lead team operations and manage communication and coordination, enrich individual artistic literacy through constant self-initiated further education and learning and study of various work methods and construction techniques, and take up the mission of leading newcomers and junior peers to keep on this traditional craft.
Finally, the government should pay attention to the vocational education by enforcing tiered instruction and maintaining basic education, professional education and full-time education and achieve collaborations between academia, industry and government and alignment between learning and practice through vocational
education and training partnerships with the business community so that young people can adapt their talent development to their individual aptitudes and learn by doing and the spirit of craftspeople can be passed down through generations.
Keywords: professional woodworker, apprenticeship, talent gap, passing on the craft
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