Ship to Academe, Seafaring to Teaching: A Paradigm Shift for Marine Officers

• Autores: Emeliza T. Estimo
• Localización: Journal of maritime research: JMR, ISSN 1697-4840, Vol. 16, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 96-104
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Years of working on board vessels as marine officers to teaching in maritime schools as full-time in-structors entails a big transition and a sharp turn of events in a seafarer’s role and way of life. This in-vestigation aimed to measure the level of commitment of seafarers-turned-maritime instructors on theirroles as teachers as well as to determine their level of competence as based on their self-assessment inreference to Lloyd’s list of key attributes for maritime educators, namely, subject knowledge and tech-nical skills, communication skills, pedagogy, and soft skills. It also attempts to identify the challengesthat they experience being fully connected with the academe and to propose a customized set of trainingcourses for professional instructors which can be included in the Faculty Development Plan to addressthe gaps that have been identified