Teachers in maritime education and training and VUCA world

Abstract

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X Abstract.Technological, social, environmental and other changes occur recently more rapidly than ever before. Those changes have considerable effect on the personal, professional, and civic life of everybody. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that the world around us is becoming “VUCA” world (VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) very quickly. From the point of view of Maritime Education and Training institutions aiming to provide high quality services for future professionals for maritime industry, a number of questions have to be taken into consideration. What changes in Maritime industry are expected in the nearest 30 years? How changes in industry will affect the structure and demand of the specialists? What changes in the profile of future professionals of Maritime industry are expected? What knowledge, skills and competences will be needed in future labor market? How MET institutions have to get ready for envisaged hallenges using proactive approach? What challenges encounter teachers in this situation? What are the main competencies needed for the teachers to be ready to deal with recent challenges and be able to educate future professionals? The question of the challenges related to teachers’ competences will be investigated in the paper from different points of view and the discussion regarding possible solutions presented.