THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Aircraft maintenance technology is a course that basically deals in producing, training and enhancing one’s skills and abilities in maintaining an aircraft’s airworthiness. The Philippine State College of Aeronautics in one among others that offers this kind of course. The institution offers aircraft maintenance technology course and other related courses.
Technicians are schooled in airframe related welding, aircraft structural design, electrical, hydraulic as well as heat and air conditioning systems, engine education encompasses both reciprocating and turbine design and operation.
The field of aircraft maintenance has a huge, largely unfilled aircraft technician perform all types of maintenance on airplane, helicopters, gliders and balloons. They inspect, maintain and repair airframes, powerplants and the respective systems and components of various models of aircraft.
Technicians may overhaul and alter aircraft in accordance with federal aviation administration regulations and guidelines. Technicians need a high degree of interpersonal skills as they interact regularly with aircraft owners and other maintenance personnel. Curriculum innovations of recent decades have been filled with rhetoric of promise and potential, and while some have materialized and brought beneficially results, many have proven hollow actually improving students learning, the lack of is starting to show. Signs indicate that today’s students are more poorly equipped for higher education and entering a career than with their predecessors. The roars of educators who called for changes I schooling during the 1980’s have, at best been softened to mere whispers, and at worst have been converted to political posturing and partisan demagoguery
The idea of curriculum is hardly new- but the way we understand and theorize it has altered over the years - and there remains considerable
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