Green Technology and Vocational College: A Preliminary Study

Abstract

Green technology is an environmental technology andcritical to the future of our society. Its main significance is to find the means to produce technology in ways that do not damage or deplete the Earth’s natural resources. Although, many studies have been conducted pertaining to green technology, but it remains unclear when it comes to the knowledge, attitude and practices of the students from vocational colleges in Malaysia. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge, attitude and practices regarding green technology among vocational colleges students. The study was conducted quantitatively using survey involving 183 students from 4 vocational colleges in Johor. A set of questionnaires was administered face to face and the data obtained were analysed usingdescriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and one-way ANOVA through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 23. The findings revealed the level of knowledgeon green technology is average (mean=3.07), meanwhile level of attitude (mean=3.60) and practices on green technology(mean=4.00) are high among vocational colleges students. The findings also added that there is no significant difference in vocational colleges students’ education level with knowledge, attitude and practices of green technology. It also demonstrated that there is no significant difference in vocational colleges students’ undertaken courses with knowledge, attitude and practices of green technology. These findings are based on the notion that increasing knowledge will further influence behaviour change regarding green technology among vocational colleges students. These vocational colleges students are the future skilled and semi-skilled workers in the country and are future generation and therefore it is obligatory to inculcate them with knowledge, attitude and practices of green technology.

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“…This underlines once more how crucial the building sector is to a nation like Malaysia. Vocational College, a renowned TVET school and a gold mine for talent, has a big responsibility in creating skilled and semi-skilled workers for the country as the need for a large number of building site workers in this country will keep increasing year after year (Kaliappan & Hamid, 2021).According to Kaliappan and Hamid (2022), vocational colleges are crucial because they produce 13.2% of the TVET grads in this nation. The readiness of vocational colleges to redesign their curricula to meet industry demands, such as the addition of green technology, has, however, raised some doubts (Kaliappan & Hamid, 2022).…”

“…Vocational College, a renowned TVET school and a gold mine for talent, has a big responsibility in creating skilled and semi-skilled workers for the country as the need for a large number of building site workers in this country will keep increasing year after year (Kaliappan & Hamid, 2021).According to Kaliappan and Hamid (2022), vocational colleges are crucial because they produce 13.2% of the TVET grads in this nation. The readiness of vocational colleges to redesign their curricula to meet industry demands, such as the addition of green technology, has, however, raised some doubts (Kaliappan & Hamid, 2022). Green technology is viewed as an emerging idea with the primary objective of promoting sustainable development, which entails identifying environmentally friendly sources of growth, developing new environmentally friendly industries, and creating jobs and technologies by lowering environmental risks and ecological scarcities, pollution, and carbon emissions, improving energy and resource efficiency, and preventing the loss of biodiversity (Guo et al, 2020;Siti Ramlee Mustapha & Siti Shuhada, 2014).…”

“…According to Kaliappan and Hamid (2022), vocational colleges are crucial because they produce 13.2% of the TVET grads in this nation. The readiness of vocational colleges to redesign their curricula to meet industry demands, such as the addition of green technology, has, however, raised some doubts (Kaliappan & Hamid, 2022).…”