Education Dilemma in Malaysia
Education Dilemma in Malaysia

Author: Jeff Tong

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 148289887X

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The quality education in modern world had becomes a main concern for any parents who want their child to excel in academic qualifications, in order to have a better future in their carrier, with better wages. The government in any country spends a great amount of fund in dealing with education, which is important in human capital development. Since educational literacy is relative to prosperous economic development for a country, no one can ignore its importance to the society. Some renowned international assessment such as OLIMPIAD, TOEFL, TIMSS, or PISA has being used to evaluate the students academic performance throughout the whole world. But, Malaysia, which is a modern nation, has to deal with a problem, where its assessment performance ranking had decline almost every year. Its assessment performance has nothing different with other third world countries such as African countries. The deteriorating of academic performance might causes by over intervention by political institutions and ineffectiveness of policy implementations. Should education over intervenes by politics, such as what happened at North Korea, Cuba and China? This kind of incident do happened in Malaysia, where the over intervenes by politics in education had causes the deteriorating of academic performance among Malaysian students.

Educational Issues in Multiethnic Malaysia
Educational Issues in Multiethnic Malaysia

Author: Tan Yao Sua

Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre

Published:

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 6297575010

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Education in multiethnic societies is a subject of considerable debates in almost all parts of the world. These debates have invoked strongly-felt positions between competing ethnic groups over a host of issues that have a profound impact on the nation building process. Apart from deep-seated issues arising from contrasting internal demands over educational rights and equality, emerging issues arising from external influences such as the global spread of English as a result of globalisation have also impacted the nation building process of multiethnic societies. It is against this context that educational issues in multiethnic societies merit our attention. In the case of Malaysia, discourses over these issues are particularly intense and hotly contested by the different ethnic groups. This is primarily because of the extreme difficulties in mediating these complicated issues which are impinged by competing socio-cultural, economic and political interests. This book explores the contested terrains of education in multiethnic Malaysia. It comprises seven chapters that cover three crucial areas of educational provisions and delivery, namely education of ethnic minorities, education and national integration, and educational language policy. These three crucial areas are often the prime concerns of policy makers in multiethnic societies who have to tread a thin line in resolving these issues which are underpinned by intense coterminous interests and inter-ethnic competition, and having the potential to generate conflicts, contestation and power struggle. As far as the Malaysian policy makers are concerned, their efforts in resolving these issues have not been overly successful. It is most unfortunate that their policy decisions are at times influenced by competing political and ethnic interests rather than guided by sound theoretical underpinnings that could put the educational development of the country on a stronger platform and a clearer trajectory.

The Impact of MOOCs on Distance Education in Malaysia and Beyond
The Impact of MOOCs on Distance Education in Malaysia and Beyond

Author: Mohamed Ally

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0429676220

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This book provides theoretical and empirical discussions around the impact of MOOCs and other pedagogical strategies for online learning in international contexts. Through discussions of inverse blended learning and other teaching and learning approaches, Part I navigates the pressing conceptual issues around global online education. By analyzing the Malaysia MOOC Initiative—the first governmental MOOC project in the world—Part II offers insight into the developmental strategies, learning design, and integrative approaches of these pioneering efforts. Edited by leading scholars in the field of globalized online learning, this volume offers a valuable contribution to research around collaborative initiatives between governments and universities, especially ones dedicated to open and distance education.

Issues and Ideas in Education for the New Malaysia
Issues and Ideas in Education for the New Malaysia

Author: Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi

Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9672464657

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The social, economic, religious and political problems of the present can be traced entirely to our education system. The way our schools, universities and religious institutions managed education expired 30 years ago, and we, therefore, need a new perspective for our country to move into the future and into the global market. Our education was premised on the production of workers as ‘tools’ to man the industry that would produce rapid growth. We have excelled at producing workers through our education industry, and they find themselves placed in a world of communication technology, ill-equipped to deal with technological, political and social changes. The old social, political and religious narratives that served as the foundation for the education constructs in the past must now change into a more inclusive, tolerant and exploratory construct in order to create real intelligence, and innovation that drives the entrepreneurship of ideas as well as social and political revolution. This book asks the questions that the government does not want to ask, does not care to ask, and does not even know how to ask about the ways in which our schools, universities and religious institutions must readdress the issue of education in a global and fast-changing world where the old order of work, play, learn, and communicate have vastly changed.

The Education Dilemma
The Education Dilemma

Author: J. Simmons

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1483285685

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The Education Dilemma: Policy Issues for Developing Countries in the 1980s focuses on the questions on the adequacy of the Western European and North American model of formal schooling exported to developing countries. The selection first offers information on an overview of the policy issues in the 1980s, future of formal education in developing countries, and factors which promote school achievement in developing countries. Discussions focus on the effect of schooling variables on achievement; comparison of the importance of schooling inputs and home background; educational production function and its limitations; and theories of learning and schooling. The text then examines preschool age investment in human capital, policy implications of instructional technology, and the impact of American educational research on developing countries. The publication takes a look at common assumptions about education and employment, education and employment after independence, and the influence of education on migration and fertility. Topics include education and migration, fertility and education, socializing effects of educational institutions, educational and individual entrepreneurship, and education and access to labor market. The manuscript also surveys education, class conflict, and uneven development and investment in education in developing nations. The selection is a valuable reference for educators and researchers interested in the application of the Western European and North American model of formal schooling to developing countries.

An Education System Worthy of Malaysia
An Education System Worthy of Malaysia

Author: M. Bakri Musa

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-01-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1469778130

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Malaysia's highly centralized and tightly controlled system of education fails in educating and integrating the young. It is also ill suited for a plural society. Instead of the present rigid and uniform system, the writer calls for one that is flexible and diverse, but with a core of commonality. There should also be private sector participation to provide competition and spur innovation. Achieving this requires radically changing the ministry of education from one obsessed with strict top-down command, to a more democratized model with power and responsibilities delegated to the periphery. The minister is less a drill sergeant barking out orders to his raw recruits but more of a symphony conductor coaxing the best out of his skilled musicians. The reforms suggested here will make Malaysians fluently bilingual in Malay and English, science literate, and mathematically competent, as well as foster a common Malaysian identity.

Real-life Dilemmas in Moral Education
Real-life Dilemmas in Moral Education

Author: Vishalache Balakrishnan

Publisher: The University of Malaya Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 983100521X

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The purpose of this book is to contribute to contemporary debates about alternative ways of teaching Moral Education in Malaysia by including the voice of students. Moral Education in the Malaysian setting is both complex and compulsory. This book explores alternatives to the current somewhat dated approach. It seeks to discover what young adolescents describe as moral dilemmas, how they approach them and what they find useful in resolving these moral problems.

Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education

Author: Cynthia Joseph

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1351377337

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This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (MEB) as a case study, a catalyst and a context, this collection critically explores some of the complex historical and contemporary push-pull politics and factors shaping Malaysia’s education system, its reform and the experience of Malaysians – and others – within it. The authors in this volume focus on the interplay of neoliberalism, nationalism, ethnic and cultural politics in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Their work captures and seeks to understand the enduring, though changing, hierarchy of access and differentiated rights to educational, social and economic resources and opportunities experienced by different individuals and collectives, including those involved in the neoliberal enterprise of international education. It looks at how inequities have been re-configured in different educational spaces in Malaysia, and at how these inequities have been addressed through reform policies and practices. The book will be a shaper and critical contributor to the assessment of the Malaysian Education Blueprint and related policies. It will also have wider relevance globally as a critical approach to policy discussion.

Internationalizing Higher Education in Malaysia
Internationalizing Higher Education in Malaysia

Author: Tham Siew Yean

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9814380962

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Examines the understanding, practices and challenges that Malaysia's higher education institutions face in their efforts to internationalize. This issue is of great importance to academics, policy-makers and students in Malaysia, given the country's aspiration to become a hub for higher education.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2015)
Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2015)

Author: Shahriman Zainal Abidin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 9811002371

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This book features 66 papers from the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research, i-CADER 2015. It illustrates the wide range of opinions and interpretations, mediums and technologies, policies and methodologies in this field. The papers, which have been reviewed by 380 experts from around the world, underline the latest trans-disciplinary research in art and design education. Coverage examines organization and sustainable issues, including: creative processes, knowledge and experience, design industrial applications, sustainable design, visual communication and new media, art education research, cultural studies, teaching and learning implications on art, traditional knowledge, and new technologies for industries. In addition, the volume also explores innovative research trends in cross-disciplinary findings, combining methodology and theory. Overall, readers are provided with an insightful analysis of the latest research and advances in art and design education.